PEARL HARBOR 19-Card Lobby Card Set Affleck, Beckinsale, Hartnett, Gooding 2001

Description

Offered here is a complete set of 19 vintage original 11x14 in. lobby cards from the large-scale historical WWII drama/romance
PEARL HARBOR
, released in 2001 by Touchstone Pictures and directed by Michael Bay. The story follows two life-long friends (Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett) and a beautiful nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who are caught-up of the horror of the infamous Sunday morning of December 7, 1941.
Lobby cards were discontinued for display in theaters in the US around 1980 but were still being made in the US for distribution in other countries. While most lobby card sets came in 8 cards, and some deluxe sets consisted of 12 or even 14 cards, this set consists of a whopping 19 different cards. With the exception of the main card (the first one depicted here), there were all cleverly designed to look like posters that have been folded and have signs of age but they are all unused and in very fine+ condition. The set includes 5 portrait cards of the main characters, four of which are vertical and one (of a Japanese pilot) is horizontal. Most of the cards are in full-color and some feature a sepia tint to give them a feeling of age and nostalgia. We have included images of 12 of the 19 different cards.
This set of 19 lobby cards is complete and in overall very fine+ condition with just a few cards exhibiting the smallest amount of wear on the tip of a corner. There are no pinholes, tears, stains, or other flaws.
It includes images of Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight (as President Franklin D. Roosevelt), and Dan Aykroyd, among others.
The shots of the series of six explosions in Battleship Row were filmed by 14 cameras, and were actually staged on real Navy ships. While on a location scout above Pearl Harbor, Michael Bay looked down and saw a line of ships doing nothing. He learned that the ships were part of the inactive fleet and he decided to use them for the explosions. The charges were put on the real ships on plywood for protection, with 700 sticks of dynamite, 2,000 feet of cord, and 4,000 gallons of gasoline used. The six 600-foot ship explosions took a month and a half to rig (with 500 individual bombs on each boat). During the scene, over 100 extras were in the harbor, and six real planes had to fly past the ships. In total, the shots took seven months of coordination among every department on the film, the state of Hawaii, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Navy to ensure everything went off without a hitch. In the end, the explosions themselves lasted only seven seconds and comprised only 12 seconds of on-screen time.
The character portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr., Doris "Dorie" Miller, was the first African-American to be awarded the Navy Cross. He was later assigned to the escort carrier Liscome Bay. He was reported missing in action in November 1943 when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Makin Island.