Saturday Evening Post featuring Sean Connery: Museum Object and Cultural History
Saturday Evening Post featuring Sean Connery: date made: 1965. depicted: Connery, Sean. maker: Saturday Evening Post.
The object in the museum catalogue
Copy of The Saturday Evening Post from 17 July 1965. The cover features Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1965 film Thunderball, the fourth in the James Bond series. Thunderball is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming and it stars Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, and Rik Van Nutter. It was the first Bond film to be shot in widescreen Panavision and to have a running time over two hours.
Cover also features stories about multi-millionaires, a discovery that prevents miscarriages, and a Nevada divorce ranch. The Saturday Evening Post has produced magazines for almost 300 years.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1965
- depicted: Connery, Sean
- maker: Saturday Evening Post
- Object Name: magazine
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 13 1/2 in x 10 5/8 in; 34.29 cm x 26.9875 cm
- Subject: James Bond
- Subject: Magazines
- Subject: Popular Culture
- Subject: Movie
- Subject: Entertainment, Film
- ID Number: 2016.3175.16
- nonaccession number: 2016.3175
- catalog number: 2016.3175.16
- Credit Line: Gift of Ryan Lintelman
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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