Junction 88: Museum Object and Cultural History
Junction 88: Date: 1948. Directed by: George P. Quigley, American. Written by: Augustus Julius Smith, American, 1891 - 1964.
The object in the museum catalogue
A feature film with the title Junction 88. There are two prints (2015.167.11.1ab) and (2015.167.11.2ab), both of which are black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with variable-area optical sound.
It opens with two individuals sitting on steps in front of a house. The man, Pop (Augustus Smith), says, “Music is just like sugar, Mom, too much of it makes you sick,” to which the woman, Mom (Abbey Mitchell), responds, “Not me, Pop, I love it.” As they speak, music from a piano can be heard in the background. In the next scene, Buster Jenkins (Wyatt Clark), a young pianist, plays a tune for his lover Lolly Simpson (Marie Cooke). At the end of his performance, Buster tells her, “Please, Lolly, don’t tell anyone I wrote it.” Lolly responds with “If you say not to, I won’t; but I want to.” The two stand and embrace each other with a kiss. The rest of the film chronicles Buster’s struggles for success and his attempt to win Pop’s approval.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1948
- Directed by: George P. Quigley, American
- Written by: Augustus Julius Smith, American, 1891 - 1964
- Produced by: Alfred N. Sack, American, 1898 - 1969
- Subject of: Bob Howard, American, 1906 - 1986
- Subject of: Dewey Markham, American, 1904 - 1981
- Subject of: Noble Sissle, American, 1889 - 1975
- Subject of: Wyatt Clark
- Subject of: Marie Cooke, American, 1921 - 2011
- Type: sound films
- Type: black-and-white films (visual works)
- Type: release prints (motion pictures)
- Type: feature films
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: acetate film
- Dimensions: Duration: 50 min.
- Place filmed: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Race films
- Topic: Rural life
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2015.167.11
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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