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Poster for The Flying Ace

1926

United States, North and Central America

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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.

This movie poster depicts a man in a World War I uniform while above him another man is parachuting from a burning plane. The large figure of a man in uniform stands in the lower left corner. Shown from the waist up, he wears a World War I uniform. At his left shoulder is a large heart shape, within which is a vignette of a man and a woman, both in uniform. Above the heart shape to the left is a man in a suit hanging from an open parachute. Slightly above him is a burning airplane. In large red letters below the plane scene is written [THE FLYING ACE] and in smaller blue print [WITH AN ALL-COLORED CAST].

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Catalog reference: 2013.118.33

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