Swing time – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Swing time in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Swing time
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Few posters of the period capture the pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as directly as this one, which promotes *Swing Time*, the 1936 RKO musical that became one of their most admired films together. Directed by George Stevens, with a score by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, the picture produced "The Way You Look Tonight," which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The printer is not recorded, and the poster is dated only to about 1936, the year of the film's release.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 51 x 66 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [S.l. : s.n.], c1936. |
| Subjects | Astaire, Fred--Performances. Rogers, Ginger,--1911-1995--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,149 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226360 |
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