Brief Encounter: Museum Object and Cultural History
Brief Encounter: Date: 1945. Directed by: Sir David Lean CBE, British, 1908 - 1991. Subject of: Celia Johnson, British, 1908 - 1982.
The object in the museum catalogue
A romantic drama with the title Brief Encounter. It consists of three (3) reels of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The film chronicles the extramarital affair between a suburban wife and a doctor who meet on a train platform.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1945
- Directed by: Sir David Lean CBE, British, 1908 - 1991
- Subject of: Celia Johnson, British, 1908 - 1982
- Subject of: Trevor Howard, British, 1913 - 1988
- Subject of: Stanley Holloway, British, 1890 - 1982
- Subject of: Joyce Carey, British, 1898 - 1993
- Owned by: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
- Type: sound films
- Type: black-and-white films (visual works)
- Type: feature films
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: acetate film
- Dimensions: Duration (Reel 1): 28 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film): 1000 Feet
- Dimensions: Duration (Reel 2): 31 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film): 1100 Feet
- Dimensions: Duration (Reel 3): 28 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film): 1000 Feet
- Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Film
- Object number: 2017.55.109.1abc
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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