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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | The black American soldier Joe (played by Dots Johnson) and the Italian street urchin Pasquale (Alfonsino Bovino) in a publicity still from Roberto Rossell... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Breno Mello, as Orfeo holding a knife, and Marpessa Dawn, as Eurydice, in Marcel Camus's Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus, 1959). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A page from the pressbook for the movie "Black Like Me" depicting a one-sheet poster that could be ordered to publicize the film. The poster reads: "I chan... |
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| Description: | Porgy (Sidney Poitier) and Crown (Brock Peters) fight one another. Poitier leans out a window and grabs Peters around the neck and wrist. Peters is bendin... |
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| Description: | Production still from the film "Porgy and Bess." Porgy (Sidney Poitier) kneels on his cart which is pulled by a goat. He passes a group of men playing dice... |
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| Description: | Flyer for a screening of the film "Portrait of Jason," with a lecture by Shirley Clarke at the University Auditorium at Kent State on January 20, 1969. Inc... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "The Lure of a Woman." A man, woman, and a little girl are standing on the steps of a house. The little girl is reaching out to a woma... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "The Flaming Crisis." A is man laying on a cot in a jail with his hand raised to protect himself. Standing near the cot is a ghost wear... |
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