‘1001 Movie Posters’ Review: The Art of the Screen Teaser A movie poster is made to promote a film. Hung on a wall at home, it becomes an advertisement for a sense of self.

A few years later in 1895, the poster for the silent film L’Arroseur Arrose (in English, The Waterer Watered) was the first to preview the contents of the movie itself, whereas posters before it ...