Brief Encounter

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 film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content. A romantic drama with the title Brief Encounter. It consists of three (3) reels of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The film chronicles the extramarital affair between a suburban wife and a doctor who meet on a train platform.

Catalog date

1945

Recorded places

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Film

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