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Printer's Proof One Sheet (28" x 41")
Very Fine+ Rolled
Columbia , 1977

Before a poster is printed in larger quantities, a limited number of posters are used as "test" posters. They would need to be shown to studio heads, marketing execs, and anyone needing to give approval. Often, they would leave the color bar on the edge of the posters, which added an extra inch to the width of the poster. Once these printer's test posters were shown to the various people in a position to approve them, the printer would print the full print run of the posters. A printer's test poster is far rarer than a regular poster.

This printer's proof is in excellent condition with only faint wear from handling. The poster was never folded.

Steven Spielberg's alien visitation classic, in which a series of UFO sightings compel a group of people, including Richard Dreyfuss as electrical line worker Roy Neary, to converge on Devil's Tower in Wyoming to experience first contact.

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