The $690,000 Poster

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A poster from Fritz Lang's classic German 1920s film "Metropolis"
has been sold at auction in London for a world record $690,000US
to an American private collector reports Reuters.

The sepia-coloured art deco poster designed by Heinz
Schulz-Neudamm is one of only four known copies in existence.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Berlin's Film Museum
have one each while another is in a private collection.

The previous record price for a movie poster was set in 1997
by a poster for the 1932 film "The Mummy," going for of $453,500US.

No doubt both posters made more money than Cameron Crowe's
Elizabethtown did at the box office.

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