As in the United States and Great Britain, televisions became increasingly common in French homes during the 1950s. This poster for Perrin Electronique, a manufacturer based in the Vosges in Eastern France, nonetheless suggests that the instrument still represented something new-fangled and futuristic for many people. Here, a cheerful martian astronaut floats among the planets and the moon in a television fashioned as a space rocket, his antennae extending to form those on the top of the set. French illustrator and poster artist Léo Kouper was best known for his cinema posters, especially those he designed for the films of Charlie Chaplin when they were released in France during the 1950s.