Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
Poster for Am I Guilty?
1940
United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This movie poster depicts a large bust-length image of a man, Ralph Cooper, along with two smaller vignettes and a banner that bisects the top and bottom half of the poster. The poster's top left quadrant showsCooper from the shoulders up, standing in front of a microscope. At the top right quadrant within a circle is a scene of a doctor and nurse dressed for surgery, standing over a patient. The bottom left quadrant has a vignette of three men; one man appears to be attacking the second, who is a in a prone position. The third man, behind them both, has his right hand raised above his head, holding a gun by the muzzle. The remaining quadrant depicts a poster with the movie title that reads "Am I Guilty?" followed by a list of the starring actors.
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Catalog reference: 2013.118.6
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