Film still from To Sir, with Love: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A color film still from the film To Sir, With Love, depicting Sidney Poitier and Judy Geeson in a classroom. Gleeson sits upon a student's desk, facing towards Poitier, who stands in front of but perpendicular to Geeson, facing the camera. The teachers desk is front of Poitier, facing towards the student desks, arranged in the classroom in rows. A wall of windows is to the side of the desks, behind Poitier and Geeson. The image is surrounded by a white border, with black text underneath providing copyright information, billing and production information, and a licensing message from National Screen Service Corp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1967
• Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Judy Geeson, English, founded 1948
• Type: film stills
• Medium: paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: East End, London, England, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Youth
• Object number: 2012.152.211
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dow B. Ellis
• 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: © 1967 Columbia Pictures Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.