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Samuel Z. Arkoff Papers. Series 6

Collection 080

Series 6: lobby cards

Series size: 1 oversize box. 2 oversize folders
Series dates: 1957-1968

This series consists of lobby cards for nine films released by American International Picture between 1956 and 1958; one film (the immortal "Angels from Hell") released in 1968; one film released in 1964 ("The Masque of Red Death"); and one in 1981 ("Emmanuelle in Soho"). Each complete set of lobby cards contains eight numbered cards. There are complete sets for each film and incomplete sets as well. "The Cat Girl" and "Machine Gun Kelly" each contain two incomplete sets."How to Make a Monster," "Reform School Girl" and "Teenage Caveman" each contain one incomplete set. "Angels from Hell," "Dragstrip Girl" and "Suicide Battalion" only contain one numbered lobby card out of the set of eight. The lobby cards for "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Emmanuelle in Soho" are, respectively, a "Half Sheet" and 30" x 40" lobby card. On these types of lobby cards, see, Ed and Susan Poole, Learn About Movie Posters (iGuide Media, Inc., 2002), 74-75.

Note that there were no title cards produced for any of the lobby card sets. Title cards are often regarded as the most valuable in a lobby card set; however, not all studios created title cards and those that did (Paramount and Disney, for example) omitted them as early as the 1930s.