Hole Punched Movie Poster — The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Hole Punched Movie Poster — The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951); Sci-Fi; Film;

This striking magenta-monotone artifact is an original promotional "herald"—a small flyer or pocket program handed out to moviegoers in 1951 to advertise Twentieth Century-Fox’s landmark science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Directed by Robert Wise, the film remains a high-water mark of Cold War-era cinema, trading the typical "monster invasion" tropes of the 1950s for a nuanced, pacifist allegory about the nuclear arms race.

© Twentieth Century-Fox Advertising Department

Approximately 8" x 11"

English;