General - First

What was the year of the first movie publicity that involved poster, FOH cards etc ?

First film poster was released in 1895 for Lumière short L'Arroseur arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled). The film was screen on June 10, 1895. From Wikipedia article - The poster for L'Arroseur arrosé has the distinction of being the first poster ever designed to promote an individual film. Although posters had been used to advertise cinematic projection shows since 1890, these early posters were typically devoted to describing the quality of the recordings and touting the technological novelty of these shows. The poster for L'Arroseur, illustrated by Marcellin Auzolle, depicts an audience (in the foreground) laughing as the film (in the background) is projected against a screen. It depicts the moment the gardener is splashed in the face, and is thus also the first film poster to depict an actual scene from a film.

Thanks so much for that.