Title from caption on object: “This Remarkable Photograph, Printed from a Frame of Motion Picture Film…”

February 1939

American 20th Century

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.4 × 16.5 cm (4 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.9 cm (8 × 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.632

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: REF. DEPT. / 2-28-39 / N.E.A.; center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: This remarkable photograph, printed from a / frame of motion picture film, shows a blurred television [underlined in graphite] / image broadcast from London and received at the R.C.A. / Communications, Inc., station at Riverhead, Long Island, / N. Y. Some detail is lost through the use of motion / picture equipment. / - - - 2/20/39; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite inverted: A7881

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