us-005578-irn614181-irn692974
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: .1 Lobby card printed on rectangular off-white cardstock, with a narrow white margin on all four sides, and a central illustration on a background that transitions from red to pale yellow. Across the top of the card is a line of Spanish advertising copy in white, directly above the Spanish film title in large, blue text. Below the title, on the left, are the Polish film title and an illustration of two gold medals with Spanish text inside. Directly below the center of the Spanish title are multiple lines of advertising copy and film credits. There is an illustration of a column of women dressed in striped concentration camp uniforms and white kerchiefs, stretching from the center of the card to the top right corner, ending at a tall brown building with a finial on top of a hipped roof. To the right of the illustration are several lines of advertising copy in red text. In the bottom left section of the card, overlaid on the column of women, is a larger-scale illustration of a woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a red blouse and depicted from the shoulders up. She has one hand raised and resting on the intersection of two lines of barbed wire, and is looking upwards. In the bottom right section of the card is a canted, rectangular, black-and-white scene still of two women, depicted from the torsos up. The woman on the left is pitched slightly forward, and looking wide-eyed towards the upper left. With one hand she is clutching the shoulder of the other woman, who is wearing a striped camp uniform and white armband. The uniformed woman has her hand covering the mouth of the first woman. Beneath the photograph, in the bottom right corner of the card, are additional production and distribution credits, printed in red and green ink. There is heavy black ink transfer speckled across the front surface. On the back, another colored image has been printed over with a heavy, solid black rectangle so that only the edges still show. Depicted: Barbara Drapinska as Marta Weiss, Wan…
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conditions of use: Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
date: 1948 March 28, approximately 1961 January
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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: irn692974
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record resource extent: .1: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .2: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .3: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .4: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .5: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .6: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) .7: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
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scope and content: Set of seven Mexican lobby cards for the film, “Ostatni Etap,” (“The Last Stop” or “The Last Stage”) originally released in Poland in March 1948, and released in Mexico as “Mujeres Heroicas” (“Heroic Women”) in 1961. 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 centers on prisoners staffing the women’s camp hospital at Auschwitz and their attempted resistance activities. The film was the first theatrical Holocaust feature made in Eastern Europe following the war, and was one of the earliest epic films to center on women. It was filmed in and around the actual camp at Auschwitz, giving it a sense of accuracy and authenticity not found in other portrayals. In addition, the director, writers, and many of the cast and extras were themselves former concentration camp prisoners. Although the film centered on Nazi brutality against the Jewish population, it also depicted prisoners from other groups. “Ostatni Etap” served as a major influence on later films about the Holocaust, such as Steven Spielberg’s 1993 feature, “Schindler’s List.” 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 seven lobby cards for the film “Ostatni Etap” (1948)