us-005578-irn614181-irn693036
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: .1 Lobby card with a photographic image printed on rectangular off-white paper from the film “The Ramparts We Watch (1940). The card has a white exterior border on all four sides, a large image on the right, and an L-shaped interior border in multiple shades of blue to the left and bottom of the image. The photograph depicts a family in their dining room, seated at a rectangular table covered in a white tablecloth. The father sits at the far end, reading a newspaper, and his wife sits opposite him, looking at her son to the right. The son is wearing a brown suit and looking at his mother, while a young woman serving a plate of food stands between them. The daughter wears a purple dress and looks across the table at her brother. Within the bottom, blue border, the film title is printed in large, white, block text. In the left corner of the blue border is a red-and-white illustration of a man in a suit, holding his hat over his heart, and a studio logo. In the lower, right corner of the image, the copyright information printed in red. The printing information is in blue, located in the bottom right margin. On the back, a large number is handwritten in black crayon. The paper has some small, dark stains, and the edges have yellowed with age. There is heavy discoloration across the surface of the back. Left to Right: Andrea King as Hilda Bensinger, Alfred U. Wysse as Prof. Gustav Bensinger, Robert Rapelye as Fred Bensinger, unidentified, Marguerite Brown as Mrs. Bensinger .2 Lobby card with a photographic image printed on rectangular off-white paper from the film “The Ramparts We Watch (1940). The card has a white exterior border on all four sides, a large image on the right, and an L-shaped interior border in multiple shades of blue to the left and bottom of the image. The photograph depicts a man and woman, from the waist up, standing outside of a brown, wood-and-shingle building. The tall man on the left is wearing denim coveralls, a light purple scarf, and a green c…
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scope and content: Lobby card for the American feature film “The Ramparts We Watch,” released in the United States on August 16, 1940, and re-released in September with a revised ending. 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 Ramparts We Watch” was the first feature-length film produced by March of Time, a subsidiary of Time, Inc., who was primarily known for newsreels. As a result, the film blends newsreel and archival footage with dramatized scenes. Filmed in New London, Connecticut, producers recruited local residents for the cast. The film begins in 1914, when Americans are learning about the escalation of war in Europe. It centers on the residents of an unnamed small town, which includes Austrian and German immigrants who are directly affected and treated with suspicion. As the war progresses, residents of the town and nation begin debating whether the United States should remain neutral. After the U.S. enters the war in 1917, many of the men in the town volunteer or are drafted. The film’s final section is an appeal to the audience, explicitly arguing that in the present day, the country is facing a similar threat from Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and advocates for intervention. “The Ramparts We Watch” incorporated footage from the German propaganda film “Baptism of Fire,” and the filmmakers were accused of piracy by a German distribution company and threatened with reprisals by the German government. The film was also banned in several U.S. states because of the footage. 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.
history: The lobby cards were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
title: Set of eight lobby cards for the film “The Ramparts We Watch” (1940)
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) .7: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .8: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
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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.
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date: 1940 August
identifier: irn693036
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