Hall Johnsons famous negro music-drama Run little chillun Original Los Angeles produc – Vintage Poster
(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.)
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A window into the past: Hall Johnsons famous negro music-drama Run little chillun Original Los Angeles produc, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hall Johnsons famous negro music-drama Run little chillun Original Los Angeles produc
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Hall Johnson's *Run, Little Chillun* was a music-drama built around Black spirituals and church singing, and this 1936 silkscreen poster advertises a Los Angeles staging of it. Johnson, a composer and choral director, had first brought the work to Broadway in 1933, where its choral sound and its portrayal of a Southern Black congregation drew wide attention. The Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that employed theater workers during the Depression, sponsored the production, and its poster artists used bold color and flat shapes to make these productions visible to the public. The poster is a useful record of how federally funded theater reached audiences beyond New York.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Johnson Hall 1888-1970. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--San Diego--1930-1950. African Americans--Music--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,767 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 42_Hall_Johnsons_famous_ne_1936 |
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