A poster promoting the first public screenings of film, providing glimpses of late 19th-century Paris life, is coming up for auction.
The poster shows a throng of people going in to the first-ever public screening of a film, on the 28 December 1895.
There was also a short film called L’Arroseur Arossé(Tables Turned on the Gardner), which is regarded as the first film comedy if not the world’s first fiction film.
It was designed by the artist Henri Brispot and is being sold in an online auction opening on 28 August with an estimate of £40,000-60,000.