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Poster for Am I Guilty?

1940

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 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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