Vanessa Obioha with agency reports
About 164 rare film posters including one that can lay claim to be the world’s first, one advertising the world-changing cinematography of the Lumière brothers, will be sold in Sotheby’s in London.
The poster promoting the first public screenings of film will provide a rare glimpse of late 19th-century Paris life. Critics lauded the idea, describing the step as a momentous one in cinema history as it traces the significant cultural developments of the 20th century. According to the Guardian UK, the historic 20-minute screening was in the Salon Indien, in the basement of the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines. A white canvas was hung at one end of the room and a selection of Lumière short films was screened showing scenes that included workers leaving the Lumière factory, an infant “fishing” for…
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