Running Wild lobby card: Museum Object and Cultural History
Running Wild lobby card: date made: 1955. Object Name: Movie Stills. Object Name: card.
The object in the museum catalogue
Original lobby card for Universal International Pictures’ 1955 motion picture, Running Wild. Abner Biberman directed this crime drama about a rookie cop and an automobile crime ring run by juvenile delinquents. William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, and Keenan Wynn star in this film. This card depicts a dance party.
Lobby cards were once a popular form of advertisement for motion pictures. The publicity departments of Hollywood studios created cards featuring striking images of their latest films and delivered sets to theatres across the country. Lobby cards were created to entice future audiences and increase ticket sales.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1955
- Object Name: Movie Stills
- Object Name: card
- Object Name: lobby card
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm
- Subject: Movie
- ID Number: 2009.0017.60.04
- accession number: 2009.0017
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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