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A pressbook is a piece of promotional material
created and distributed by film producers in order to market their
films. Prior to 1980, most film companies did their own promotion, and
the pressbooks would be given to exhibitors. Pressbooks generally
contained information on the stars of the film, illustrations of film
posters or newspaper advertisements, notes that could be planted in
newspaper features or blurbs, ideas for exploitation campaigns, and
other promotional materials including ready-made film reviews,
souvenir-style giveaways and listings of various tie-ins with the film