us-005578-irn614181-irn692928
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: .1 Lobby card printed on rectangular, off-white paper. The card has a white exterior border on all four sides and features a collage of images. At the top of the card is a tagline, printed in two lines of blue text. Extending in a diagonal line from the top left corner, increasing in size from left to right, are headshots of eight men in suits. At the far right of the line, overlaid on a black square, is a larger-scale headshot of a blonde woman with red cloth over most of her hair. Below the images, on a red background, are several lines of yellow, blue, and black text listing the stars, film title, and credits. In the lower left corner is an image of an envelope that has been covered by a rectangular piece of white tape, suggesting a blank envelope. To the left is a man’s face overlaying a segment of a barbed wire fence, and a circular logo. In the lower right corner are two book covers. Copyright and printing information is printed in blue in the bottom margin. On the back, in the upper left corner and along the right edge are several strings of numbers handwritten in pencil. The paper is stained, and the upper edge is bent and worn from use. Depicted: Morris Carnovsky as Max Eisenstein, Paul Lukas as Martin Schulz, Peter van Eyck as Heinrich Schulz, K.T. Stevens as Griselle Eisenstein .2 Lobby card printed on rectangular, off-white paper, with a white exterior border on all four sides and features a large photographic image of a woman in the center. The woman is depicted from the shoulders up, looking towards the right and wearing a large, brown hood over her head. She is clutching the hood at the neck, with an injured hand. The image of the woman is overlaid on a blurry image of uniformed soldiers, standing at attention. Overlaying the image in the lower left corner is a black rhombus, outlined in white, containing the film title and principal actors printed in orange and light blue. Partially covering the text on the right of the rhombus is an image of an enve…
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conditions of use: Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
date: 1944 June 01
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
history: The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
history: The lobby cards were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
identifier: irn692928
is or was included in: us-005578-irn614181
record resource extent: .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .6: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
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scope and content: Set of six lobby cards for the American feature film, “Address Unknown,” released in the United States on June 1, 1944. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film was based on the 1938 novella of the same name in “Story” magazine by Kressmann Taylor (penname for Katherine Taylor), and it was nominated for the Academy Awards for Art Direction and Music in 1944. The film tells the story of two German business partners in the United States, whose friendship and families are destroyed when one of them returns to Germany, and succumbs to the Nazi regime and its propaganda. When the businessman in Germany turns his back on the woman who is both his Jewish partner’s daughter and his own son’s fiancée, leading to her death, he begins receiving a series of incriminating letters from the U.S. The original novella became so popular that a shortened version of it was reprinted in “Reader’s Digest” in 1939, printed in hardcover in 1940, and was reissued in the late 20th century as an international bestseller. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
title: Set of six lobby cards for the movie, “Address Unknown” (1944)