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Auction History Result 5b326 DISPATCH FROM REUTERS LC 1940 Edward G. Robinson & another with police officer! Date Sold 4/2/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) A Dispatch From Reuters (also released as "This Man Reuter"), the 1940 William Dieterle (this is the last of five biographical movies Dieterle directed for Warner Bros) historical news transmission biography melodrama ("No man knows him... Yet his shadow covers the world!"; "...Here comes 'A Dispatch from Reuters'... Mystery man behind history's greatest headlines!..."; "From a story by Valentine Williams & Wolfgang Wilhelm"; the true story of Julius Reuter, who founded the famous news agency) starring Edward G. Robinson (in the title role as Julius Reuter), Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, and James Stephanson. Reuters was the first of the great international news agencies. It made no sense for newspapers all over the world to have to try to find out news beyond their local area, when one agency could perform that work for every newspaper, and then they would subscribe to the agency's "news feed". This worked wonderfully from the mid 1800s until the birth of the Internet, which created a new way for news to be dispatched all over the world. But at its peak, Reuters and the other top news agencies employed thousands of people all over the world seeking out the news, and then reporting on it, and their reports were carried in thousands of newspapers all over the world. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. We are doing something in this set of auctions we rarely do! A couple of years ago, we were approached by a very long time collector, and he asked us if he could give us an entire auction of single lobby cards by himself. We agreed, and held that auction in 2017, and later that same year, a different collector sent us a different group of 999 lobby cards and we repeated the process. Now we have a third such "single owner" collection. This one was originally assembled in Australia, which is why some of the cards have either Australian paper snipes attached or Australian ratings stamps (but many do not have them). This collection originally contained 1,100 cards, and we auctioned 100 of them in our March Major Auction, and now we are auctioning the remaining 999 in THIS set of auctions, and after this auction, there will be no more cards to be offered. As will immediately be evident when you look at the cards, many of them are from titles where you almost never see any lobby cards, so this is a rare opportunity to acquire many cards that almost never are offered for sale or at auction! Condition: fair to good. The card has darkened, typical of Warner Bros. linen lobby cards of this period. There is a vertical scratch mark in the man's face at right that has some touch up. There are creases and scuffs scattered throughout the card (including two tiny creases in Robinson's face), with a tiny tear at middle right that was repaired with tape from the back. See our super-sized images to get a good sense of the condition of this card. Learn More about condition grades 
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