Film still of actors on the set of King Kong: Museum Object and Cultural History
Film still of actors on the set of King Kong: Date: 1976. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph of actors on the set of the 1976 film King Kong. Several dozen people are visible, most wearing grass skirts and many carrying torches, few of whom are facing the camera. There is a large bonfire in the middle ground at the far left of the frame. In the background a large wooden or bamboo wall or gate is visible.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1976
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Black Stuntmen's Association, founded 1967
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: film stills
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (19.7 x 24.1 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.6 x 25.4 cm)
- Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Professional organizations
- Object number: 2013.73.8
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lenton W. Glascow
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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