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Rare Film Posters Auction

Poster Auctions International will be auctioning a collection of 1,000 rare film posters in New York City on November 13. Foremost in the collection is the poster for the 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin, made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 uprising. Another poster, promoting the 1924 Soviet film Aelita, Russia's first science-fiction film, is the only known poster in existence for that film. Also in the collection are posters for the French release of 1933's King Kong, the 1924 French film The Inhuman, The Blue Angel, the Italian release of Citizen Kane, the Swedish version of Garbo's Flesh and the Devil, Black Orpheus, the French …