Lobby card for Redskin movie
date: label: date made
content: ca 1929
name: label: maker
content: Paramount Pictures
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Lobby card for the 1929 Paramount film <i>Redskin</i>, starring Richard Dix. The card features a bust-level sketch of Dix in Navajo costume as the character Wing Foot. <i>Redskin</i>, directed by Victor Shertzinger, tells the story of a young Navajo man, Wing Foot, who attends school on the East Coast. Upon returning to his tribe, he renounces their customs and beliefs, and is cast out. He is able to win back their respect and avert an intertribal war by securing a lucrative claim for oil drilling rights. The film featured a synchronized sound score and sound effects, and was partially filmed in Technicolor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Native Americans
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0132.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0132
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0132.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lobby card
label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: printed (overall production method/technique)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm