[Scene from Top Hat"; Fred Astaire dancing with large group of men]" – Vintage Print
![[Scene from Top Hat"; Fred Astaire dancing with large group of men]", 1953 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c2/c2521e7334a0-L.webp)
(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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[Scene from Top Hat"; Fred Astaire dancing with large group of men]" comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Scene from Top Hat"; Fred Astaire dancing with large group of men]"
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Fred Astaire dances at the center of a large group of men in this scene from *Top Hat*, the 1935 RKO musical that paired him with Ginger Rogers and was directed by Mark Sandrich. The caption card dates the print to 1953, but that date is unverified and most likely reflects when the still was made or catalogued, since the film itself came out nearly two decades earlier. Studios issued stills like this one to promote their pictures and to document productions, which is why they often outlast the films they came from.
| Created / published | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : motion picture still. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pictures; BI; Dance. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152487 |
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