The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A fantasy film with the title The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. The film, which is in technicolor, consists of three (3) reels of 16mm acetate film with optical sound.

In the film, Sokurah (Torin Thatcher), an evil wizard, miniaturizes and holds Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) captive. Sinband (Kerwin Mathews), the prince of Baghdad, goes on a quest to Colossa, an island of monsters, in an attempt to find the egg of a roc, a fierce giant bird, to restore Parisa.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1958
• Directed by: Nathan Juran, American, 1907 - 2002
• Produced by: Charles H. Schneer, American, 1920 - 2009
• Distributed by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Subject of: Kerwin Mathews, American, 1926 - 2007
• Subject of: Torin Thatcher, British, 1905 - 1981
• Subject of: Kathryn Crosby, American, born 1933
• Subject of: Richard Eyer, American, born 1945
• Subject of: Alec Mango, British, 1911 - 1989
• Type: sound films
• Type: color films (visual works)
• Type: feature films
• Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
• Medium: acetate film
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 1): 20 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 700 Feet
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 2): 37 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 1300 Feet
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 3): 28 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 1000 Feet
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place filmed: Alhama de Granada, Andalusia, Granada, Spain, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Object number: 2017.55.112.1abc
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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