lobby card

noun

A small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.

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Meanings

nounlobby card (plural lobby cards)

plural lobby cards

  1. A small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.

    Some lobby card sets contain as many as 16 or more different cards. One of the purposes of lobby cards was to give a pictorial synopsis of the subject movie.

    1997, Edwin E. Poole, Susan T. Poole, Collecting Movie Posters, McFarland, published 2013, →ISBN
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