"The Three Musketeers" Oil Painting
date: label: Date made
content: 1948
name: label: producer
content: Sidney, George
label: maker
content: Howard, Noel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Oil painting on poster board by Noel Howard depicting the stage set from the motion picture <i>The Three Musketeers</i>. Directed by George Sidney, this 1948 action film was a cinematic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s famous novel by the same name. The painting features scenes from the stage set, including: a street scene with filmmakers by a stone-lined pool on the edge of a forest; the Three Musketeers (in center); a member of the light crew holding a light meter; crossed swords and fishing rods beneath a microphone; Gene Kelly in water; George Sidney with his hands framing the swashbuckling scene; an overturned boat with life preserver labeled “S.S. MGM”; camera crew on boom; klieg lights. It is signed “Noel Howard ’48.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Culver City
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Corinne Entratter Sidney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0166.04
label: accession number
content: 2004.0166
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0166.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oil paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: posterboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: adhesive tape (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 28 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm