Film still for Carmen Jones: Museum Object and Cultural History
Film still for Carmen Jones: Date: 1954. Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935. Owned by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white movie still for the 1954 film Carmen Jones. The photo depicts a man and a woman. The man in the photo is kneeling on his right knee supporting the reclining woman on his left arm as she lies on the ground. The man is wearing a dark hat and jacket with dark shoes. The woman on the ground is wearing a light colored dress and stares blankly past the man above her. Behind them are torn boxes and stacked Coca-Cola bottles. In the bottom right hand corner of the photo it reads "CJ-70" in white text. Below the photo is information about who the photo belongs to, the starring cast, and copyright information.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1954
- Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935
- Owned by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
- Subject of: Harry Belafonte Jr., American, 1927 - 2023
- Subject of: Dorothy Dandridge, American, 1922 - 1965
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: film stills
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 6 11/16 × 9 5/16 in. (17 × 23.7 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 × 10 3/16 in. (20.3 × 25.8 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Topic: Musical films
- Topic: Opera (Music)
- Topic: Sexuality
- Object number: 2013.118.162.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: © 1954 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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