Film poster for The Call: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Two identical posters featuring a large portrait of Halle Berry with her PR side of her face looking at the viewer. In her PR ear is a headset. The remainder of her face is cropped out of the poster. The whole of the poster is red with white text at the top [THERE ARE 188 MILLION 911 CALLS A YEAR/THIS ONE MADE IT PERSONAL]. In the lower right quadrant is the title in black and white text with two names listed above, also in white [HALLE BERRY/ABIGAIL BRESLIN/THE CALL]. Below the title along the bottom is the billing block.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2013
• Distributed by: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., founded 1987
• Subject of: Halle Berry, American, born 1966
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 17 × 11 1/16 in. (43.2 × 28.1 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.4.1-.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, A Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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