us-005578-irn614181-irn692939
scope and content: Set of six lobby cards for the film, “Tomorrow- The World!” released by United Artists in December 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 a popular 1943 Broadway play of the same name, and centers around a 12-year-old member of the Hitler Youth who moves to the United States to live with his American uncle. Despite his parents’ deaths in a concentration camp, the young boy is entrenched in Nazi ideology, and is arrogant, insulting, and outwardly antagonistic towards his uncle’s Jewish fiancée. The adults debate over the best way to handle the boy, and by extension, Nazi Germany. After a more physical tactic ends in disaster, the characters find that a compassionate and loving approach breaks through. This serves as a metaphor for how to treat the ordinary German citizens living under the brutality of the Nazi regime. “Tomorrow, the World!” carries an underlying message that they were unwillingly forced into the Nazi ideology, and the film promotors even suggested that local discussions should held. 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.
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archival history: The lobby cards were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
biographical 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.
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: .1 Lobby card with a yellow background printed on rectangular, off-white paper with a white exterior border on all four sides. In the top left corner is a photographic image of the face of a young man with a large smile. To his right is a quote from the film, printed in red. In the top right corner, and extending down the right side, are the faces of a girl, two women, and a man. The girl is smiling and has her hair pulled back with two bows. The woman in the corner has short hair that is partially pulled back, and is glancing to the left. Below her is a man with brown hair, and a woman with dark brown hair that is pinned up. In the center of the card is the film producer and title, printed in large back text, surrounded by multiple groups of short, black accent lines. Below the tile, on the right side, is green text at the center of a circular wreath made of two, green, leafed branches tied together with a ribbon at the bottom. Along the bottom of the card are the film credits, printed in black, green, and red ink. Printing and copyright information is printed in blue text in the bottom margin. The paper is creased and worn with several tears that have been repair with clear tape on the back. There is a surface loss in the top margin on the right. On the back left, there is ink transfer from another image. Depicted: Skip Homeier as Emil Bruckner, Joan Carroll as Pat Frame, Betty Field as Leona Richards, Fredric March as Mike Frame, Agnes Moorehead as Jessie Frame .2 Lobby card on rectangular, off-white paper with a large photographic image in the center and a white exterior border on all four sides. The image shows a scene with two adults and two older children inside a richly decorated home. On the right is a girl with curly dark hair, shown in left profile wearing a matching yellow skirt and jacket and two large, brown bows in her hair. She is listening to the young man standing to her left. The young man has reddish hair and is wearing a black suit with a tie. H…
title: Set of six lobby cards for the movie, “Tomorrow- the World!” (1944)
conditions of use: Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
has or had some members with language: eng
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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)
identifier: irn692939
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date: 1944 December 29