Sky Vu drive-in theater poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sky Vu drive-in theater poster: date made: 1966. graphic artist: Victor Cornelius. Object Name: poster.
The object in the museum catalogue
Movie poster for the Sky Vu drive-in movie theater in Russell, Kansas for a weekend in April 1966. Advertised movies include It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a 1963 comedy starring Spencer Tracy, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Meman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters; Inside Daisy Clover, a 1965 drama starring Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, and Ruth Gordon; 633 Squadron, a 1964 film starring Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris; and Racing Fever, a 1964 film starring Joe Morrison, Charles Martin, and Barbara Biggart.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1966
- graphic artist: Victor Cornelius
- Object Name: poster
- Object Name: print
- Object Name: poster, movie
- Object Type: Photomechanical Relief Processes
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 56 cm x 35.5 cm; 22 1/16 in x 13 31/32 in
- Associated Place: United States: Kansas
- Subject: Movie
- Subject: Theater
- Subject: Printing
- Subject: Entertainment, Film
- ID Number: 2013.0133.01
- accession number: 2013.0133
- catalog number: 2013.0133.01
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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