Mighty Hunter: Museum Object and Cultural History
Mighty Hunter: Date: 1925-1935. Owned by: Maurice Sorrell, American, 1914 - 1998. Created by: Keystone Studios, American, 1912 - 1935.
The object in the museum catalogue
Consists of: 16mm Film (a), Original film reel (b), Original film canister (c).
2016.95.6.1a: 16mm film. Charlie Chaplin stars in this short Keystone film titled “Mighty Hunter”. In this film, Charlie Chaplin and another man dressed in caveman attire hunt and vie for a woman’s attention.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1925-1935
- Owned by: Maurice Sorrell, American, 1914 - 1998
- Created by: Keystone Studios, American, 1912 - 1935
- Subject of: Charlie Chaplin, English, 1889 - 1977
- Type: motion pictures (information artifacts)
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: 16mm Film (a): acetate film;
- Medium: Reel (b): plastic;
- Medium: Film Can (c): metal
- Dimensions: Duration: 1.5 Minutes
- Dimensions: Film Length: 50 Feet
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Object number: 2016.95.6.1a
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bonita F. Bing & The Late Blanche Beatrice Sorrell
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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