lobby card

English

Lobby card for My Best Girl (1927)

Noun

lobby card (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.
   • 1997, Edwin E. Poole, Susan T. Poole, Collecting Movie Posters‎^[1], McFarland, published 2013, →ISBN:

     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.

Further reading

• lobby cards on Wikipedia.Wikipedia