Poster for Together Brothers: Museum Object and Cultural History
Poster for Together Brothers: Date: 1974. Created by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935. Subject of: William A. Graham, American, born 1933.
The object in the museum catalogue
Movie poster with white border. Title at top in white text on a red background [TOGETHER / BROTHERS] Three black and white images from the film are under the title, all showing various characters running. The left image is a police officer, the middle image depicts a small boy, and the right image is of a group of five boys. The tagline is in white text under the images [Somebody offed / their main man. / Shot him down / in the ghetto. / One little boy / saw the murder. / Now he's running / from the killer / With no place left to go. / Thank God / he's got brothers. / TOGETHER BROTHERS. / It's about finding a killer. / Saving a little boy. / It's about fighting. Loving. / It's about being a kid in a world where childhood isn't allowed]. Billing block at bottom in white text on a red background. NSS number 74/145. Handwritten 30 in pencil in bottom right corner. Back is blank white.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1974
- Created by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935
- Subject of: William A. Graham, American, born 1933
- Subject of: Ahmad Nurradin, American, born 1956
- Subject of: Anthony Wilson
- Type: posters
- Medium: lithographic ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 41 1/8 x 27 3/8 in. (104.5 x 69.5 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blaxploitation films
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Urban life
- Object number: 2010.7.70
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Leith Adams
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Sources and reuse
Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1974 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
