Original Movie Posters

Definition: A poster that was issued for a movie by the National Screen Service (NSS) or by the movie studio or by any of the other company authorized by the studio for the display in an actual movie theatre at the time of the original release.

There are also "Studio Issued" original posters, these are printed at the same time as theatrical display posters, although they werent actually meant for theatrical display they are still considered original. They were distributed to the "insiders" and those who worked on the film.

Posters are made to be sold to the public aren't original posters. Really popular are usually have kinds of reproductions, licensed and unlicensed and  they can be found in eBay. Sometimes its really hard to tell that they arent originals, because the quality is so good.

Often people confuse DVD posters as they original posters, these are not. These are just purely to adverstise the release of the DVD etc. They may have the same value as original movie posters  to some people because they have been released at the same time as the release of the film. Some of them can be quite  collectable and  valuable, but mostly not.

There are cases that original movie posters can be incredibly valuable and be worth a lot of money. This certaintly isnt the case for reproduction posters.