Emergency Call cinema slide

United States, 1933

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Object
Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI

Slide features imagery with a monochromatic emulsion that has then been hand painted with coloured pigments or dye. TEXT on the slide reads: Radio Pictures presents Bill Boyd with William Gargen Wynne Gibson in Emergency Call A spell-binding drama! Hurricane Speed! Heart-burning Romance! A Radio Picture Not suitable for General Exhibition

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Previously on display

15 June 2023

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

director

Edward Cahn

production company

RKO Radio Pictures

Production places
United States
Production dates
c. 1920-1950 1933

Appears in

Group of items

Glass cinema slides

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

AEO179917

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-05. Sound and Colour → MI-05-C02

Measurements

82 x 82 x 1mm

Object Types

3D Object

Glass slide/Pictorial

Materials

glass, ink, emulsion, tape

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