<i>Date with Duke</i> piano
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker; producer
content: Pal, George
label: user
content: Walter Lantz Productions
label: maker
content: Pal, George
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Black piano used by George Pal in the 1947 animated film <i>Date with Duke</i>. This film is a humorous short featuring Duke Ellington performing and in conversation about jazz style with a number of Puppetoon characters.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>George Pal was one of the pioneers of stop-frame animation, a painstaking process achieved by moving figures and shooting each change on a single frame of film in a series of progressive steps. For each frame shot, the head, arms, and legs of the figures were changed according to the motions needed to create the illusion of movement.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Animation
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movies
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content: Jazz
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Elisabeth Pal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0361.04
label: accession number
content: 1983.0361
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0361.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: figure, animation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 20 1/4 in x 9 in; 10.16 cm x 51.435 cm x 22.86 cm