Title from caption on object: “Adolf Hitler Makes a Speech”

c. 1935

Unknown 20th Century

Associated Names
Unknown, 20th Century

Artist

ACME Newspictures

Publisher

The image shows a man in a formal position, giving a speech. He is captured in a side profile speaking near a podium with a microphone. The man has a combed sideways hairstyle and a small mustache. He is dressed in a military-style jacket with a swastika armband on the left arm. The background contains another man in the lower right corner. Lines and letters are marked on the top and sides of the image. The setting appears to be an open area without additional background details, with the subject centered in the frame.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.1 × 18.5 cm (5 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.3 × 20.7 cm (6 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.309

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink; crop marks top center, center, and lower center in grey paint; by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: R.P.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink perpendicular: Hitler 1923--1939; upper center in graphite: [illegible] Page / Hit 3 / 2 cols 3 1/8'; upper center stamped in red ink inverted: FILED MAY-1 1939; center left printed in black ink on applied yellow sticker inverted: 84; center Acme copyright stamp in blue ink inverted; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper: 50054 [illegible] / ADOLF HITLER MAKES A SPEECH -- FULL FLIGHT / THE NEW GERMANY MAY NOT APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY OF / ADOLF HITLER, BUT WHEN HE TALKS, EVERY GERMAN / LISTENS. THIS SHOWS WHY. DER FUHRER WITHHOLDS / NOTHING WHEN HE PREACHES HIS DOCTRINE OF MILITANT / NAZI NATIONALISM. HERE, HE IS IN THE FULL FLIGHT [underlined] / OF THE DYNAMIC ORATORY [underlined] WHICH HAS WON HIM MILLIONS / OF FOLLOWERS AND MADE MILLIONS FEAR HIM. / CREDIT LINE (MOVIETONE NEWS PHOTO FROM ACME) / #1 CAN CL MX BA CL DAL; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite on applied paper inverted: 61

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