Lobby card for the film Juke Joint: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Lobby card for the 1947 film Juke Joint. The card is white with colored images and blue, red and yellow text. In the top left corner is a blue-and-white image of a man and woman dancing. A Sack Amusement Enterprises logo is over the dancers. Printed below the dancers on the right side is [ALFRED N. SACK / presents / JULY / JONES / SPENCER / WILLIAMS]. A large color photographic image of men playing pool is at the center of the card. In the top right corner are two blue-and-white images of a man and woman dancing. In the bottom left corner is a black-and-white photographic image of a man on one knee looking through a keyhole. At the bottom of the card printed in yellow ink on a red background is [in JUKE JOINT] in large text. Printed below this in black ink on a white background is [A BERT GOLDBERG PRODUCTION] and [Distributed by SACK AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISES]. The right side of the card is stained and torn. The back of the card is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1947
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Distributed by: Sack Amusement Enterprises, American, 1920 - 1979
• Subject of: Bert Goldberg, American
• Subject of: Alfred N. Sack, American, 1898 - 1969
• Subject of: Spencer Williams, American, 1893-1969
• Subject of: July Jones, American
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2019.22.19
• 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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