Ticket to the premiere of The Last Dragon: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Ticket for the premiere of The Last Dragon. Printed front and back. The front features a collection of images of characters from the film on the front: a woman's face in the upper left corner; a man with a beam of light coming out of his hand in the center; standing woman wearing a dress in bottom center; and a man and woman looking at each other in the bottom right corner. Red and yellow lettering at the bottom [BERRY GORDY'S/THE LAST/DRAGON/PLITT CENTURY PLAZA/THEATRE #1/2040 Avenue of the Stars/ABC Entertainment Center/Century City/March 21, 1985/7:00 PM/ADMIT TWO] Billing block information on the back, yellow lettering on a red background. In an envelope addressed to Mr. Julius Carry from Tri-Star Pictures.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1985
• Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Subject of: de Passe Entertainment, founded 1968
• Owned by: Julius J. Carry III, American, 1952 - 2008
• Type: tickets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/16 x 4 in. (20.5 x 10.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Object number: 2013.49.8.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, "I am the Master, Sho'Nuff!" Gift of Naomi Carry in loving memory of Julius J. Carry, III
• 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: © 1985 TriStar Pictures Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.