us-005578-irn614181-irn693000
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: .1 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide margin on the top and bottom, and a narrow margin on the left and right. Across the top and down the right side of the poster are a set of five square illustrations, each surrounded by a narrow border containing a caption. Each illustration features a different character overlaying a background scene. The characters include: a man wearing a captain’s hat, a woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a man holding up a submachine gun, a younger man looking up, and a man wearing a hat pulling the pin out of a grenade with his teeth. In the center-left of the poster is a canted rectangle containing the names of the three leading actors, printed in large black text. Beneath the rectangle is the film title in black brushed text, creating shadows in the front. To the right of the title are four figures: an armed kneeling man and woman, a standing man, and a man lying face-down beneath a large image of a sword entwined in a leafy vine. Above and below the scene, additional advertising copy is printed in small black text. At the bottom of the card is a night scene of people engaged in a gunfight in a camp. On the left, in front of an exploding barracks and a tower with a searchlight, are a group of fighters with a tank, and on the right are people emerging from a wire fence topped with razor wire. The film credits are printed in black along the bottom edge of the advertisement. The edges are slightly discolored, the page is unevenly cut along the right edge. Along the bottom edge are multiple, small, circular water stains. The reverse contains an unrelated, full-page advertisement. Depicted: Dana Andrews as Captain Mike Dillon, Märta Torén as Sabra, Stephen McNally as David Vogel, Jeff Chandler as Asvan Kurta, Liam Redmond as Jerry McCarthy .2 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide ma…
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date: 1949 August 24
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history: The magazine advertisements were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
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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record resource extent: .1: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) .2: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) .3: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) .4: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm)
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scope and content: Set of four, identical full-page magazine advertisements for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was the first film made in Hollywood that depicted the Jewish struggle to establish the state of Israel in May 1948. Britain was given control of Palestine following World War I, and severely restricted the immigration of Jewish refugees who wanted to establish a new Jewish State. This led many refugees to enter the country via “illegal” or “clandestine” immigration on ships. The mass immigration of refugees also led to bitter clashes between the Arab locals and the Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah. The film received some criticism for portraying the British as villains, and not showing any of the conflict with the Arab population. In England, the film was perceived as anti-British and sparked outrage and several violent incidents. “Sword in the Desert” also established a new archetype of a rough-and-tumble female character that can hold her own with the Haganah fighters. 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 four magazine advertisements for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)