2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY KUBRICK LOBBY CARD SET 1968 Original and RARE. Lobby Card set: 2001 A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick . The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke , and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story " The Sentinel " and other short stories by Clarke. Clarke also published a novelisation of the film , in part written concurrently with the screenplay, after the film's release. The film stars Keir Dullea , Gary Lockwood , William Sylvester , and Douglas Rain and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith . Size: A4 (21x29,7cm) (8"x11,5") All original, this set contains 8 cards Language: french FREE tracked shipping worldwide with purchase of 3 or more sets of cards (I will send altered invoice after purchase) What is a Lobby Card?
Lobby Cards are promotional photographs printed on cardstock paper. They were meant to be displayed in the massive lobbies of movie palaces before the film came out.
Lobby cards fall into the broad collectible category of 'paper ephemera'. Paper ephemera encompasses anything printed on paper and intended for the trashcan. And unlike a lot of ephemeral collectibles, Lobby Cards died out before the collector market really took off.
This means that the supply never had a chance to get over-saturated. Even genuine one sheet movie posters tend to be over-printed these days! This means that lobby cards remain highly collectible to this day.