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Film poster for The Five Heartbeats

1991

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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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.

Movie poster with five (5) men featured in the center. Each man wears a different color and is seen posed in various positions around each other. Poster has a light blue background. At the top is purple text with the movie tag line [THEY WERE JUST FIVE GUYS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD,/BUT TOGETHER THEY CREATED A SOUND THAT ROCKED AMERICA]. In the lower half of the poster is a large graphic that incorporates the title of the film [the/FIVE HEARBEATS]. The graphic includes a large heart with five (5) men wearing identical suits. Below the title is the billing block in purple text.

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Catalog reference: 2014.35.28

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