Babe Ruth "Prelude to Korea" Lobby Card

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Babe Ruth "Prelude to Korea" Lobby Card

Presented is a rare original lobby card for the documentary film Prelude to Korea. The 1950 film was written and narrated by Quentin Reynolds, a journalist and World War II correspondent. Reynolds was born in The Bronx, in New York City, and he played football for Brown University. The lobby card measures approx. 11x14" and displays the film's title and the subtitle "The Death of a Dream." The top right corner of the lobby card shows an image of a soldier with his bayonet seeming to draw blood from the spot where Korea would be on an image of Asia. The lobby card states that the film is "A United World Films Production." Most of the lobby card shows a colorized image of Babe Ruth swinging for the fences during 1934 when a team of American baseball celebrities made a barnstorming tour of Japan in Nov. and Dec. 1934. The United States team, called the All Americans, featured such future Hall of Fame players as Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, and Charlie Gehringer and future Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack. In the bottom left corner of the poster the copyright listing, as "Copyright 1950 Pathe Industries, Inc." During World War II, Japanese soldiers would often use the name of Babe Ruth in derision as the Japanese soldiers taunted American soldiers, and Ruth later became embittered by the slurs as he felt that the many friends he had made in Japan before the war had turned against him. The lobby card is in excellent condition. In the lower right corner, the lobby card is numbered as 50/554. The lobby card has great eye appeal, and it has enduring cross-appeal to fans of baseball, history and film.