A People's Convention: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A documentary short with the title "A People's Convention." It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. It was produced by Union Films and covers the 1948 Progressive Party Convention in Philadelphia, PA.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1948
• Created by: Union Films, 1946 - 1953
• Produced by: Carl Marzani, American, 1912 - 1994
• Directed by: Max Glandbard, American, 1915 - 1987
• Subject of: Progressive Party, American, 1948 - 1955
• Subject of: Paul Robeson, American, 1898 - 1976
• Subject of: Henry Wallace, American, 1888 - 1965
• Composed by: Serge Hovey, American, 1920 - 1989
• Owned by: Pearl Bowser, American, 1931 - 2023
• Type: sound films
• Type: black-and-white films (visual works)
• Type: short subjects
• Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
• Medium: acetate film
• Dimensions: Duration: 15 min.
• Dimensions: Physical extent (film): 600 ft
• Place filmed: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Folk (Music)
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2012.79.1.1.1a
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pearl Bowser
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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