Lifeboat – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Lifeboat. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This color poster, issued in Copenhagen around 1949, advertises the Hitchcock film *Lifeboat* and puts Tallulah Bankhead, the Alabama-born stage star, at its center. The film, released in 1944, follows survivors of a torpedoed ship crowded into a single lifeboat in the Atlantic, with a German U-boat captain among them. Hitchcock confined nearly the whole story to that small boat, a deliberate and difficult constraint. The Danish poster's date, years after the film's American release, reflects how far its reach extended after the war.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 84 x 61 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Copenhagen : Permild & Rosengreen, [1949] |
| Subjects | Bankhead, Tallulah,--1902-1968--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,942 × 6,089 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225776 |
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