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Oklahoma!

Part of Late Summer, Early Widescreen
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Still from Fred Zinnemann’s Oklahoma! (1955), courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures Inc./ Photofest
 

Oklahoma! is a rollicking Western-romance driven by courtship rivalries and unforgettable choreography. Adapted for the screen from the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, it was the first film shot and projected in the then-new 70mm Widescreen and 35mm CinemaScope formats simultaneously. The Oscar-winning classic was filmed between Arizona and MGM Studios in Los Angeles. Oklahoma! was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007. (Fred Zinnemann, 1955, DCP, 145 minutes)

Part of the Late Summer, Early Widescreen film series

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Two people look out of side-by-side windows in a brick building in this horizontal black and white photograph. The woman on our left has a double chin and a broad chest. She wears a polka-dotted dress and dark shawl or vest, and she leans forward with one hand on the sill. Her face is partially shadowed by a white window blind. An American flag hanging near this window billows across the right two-thirds of the picture, entirely hiding the second person’s head. That person wears a coat buttoned up to a rounded collar. They hold one hand near their chin and the other by their waist. The flag has eight columns of stars. The work is signed and dated in the white margin below: “1955 HOBOKEN” to the left and “Robert Frank” to the right.

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