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  • Let's Go to the Movies: Artifacts and Icons of the American Cinema
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Let's Go to the Movies: Artifacts and Icons of the American Cinema

Since its birth in the late 19th century, American cinema has been one of the most powerful forms of popular art. American movies shape how the world sees us and how we see ourselves. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is home to an extensive number of objects and images related to film and television history, and more are being digitized all the time. The National Portrait Gallery features notable stars of the big screen. The National Postal Museum houses commemorative stamps featuring icons of film.


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Bloomingdale's: Hooray for Hollywood

Do You Know What the Hollywood Sign Originally Said?

Hollywood

Hollywood

Untitled--Hollywood

How a Room in New Jersey Gave Us the Film Industry

Jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

33c Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" single

Technicolor Camera

This Is the Jewelry Worn by Vintage Hollywood Movie Stars

R2-D2, from Return of the Jedi

Forever Great Film Directors: Billy Wilder single

Ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

Camera, Motion Picture, Bell & Howell 35mm

"How the Weinies Worsted Charley" Mutoscope Movie Poster

33c Drive-in Movies single

44c Black Heritage: Oscar Micheaux single

32c Alfred Hitchcock single

Forever Great Film Directors: John Huston single

Detroit Lions jacket worn by Eddie Murphy in the film Beverly Hills Cop II

33c Movies go 3-D single

Prop egg from Alien 3 trailer

Make-up

Sound

32c Marilyn Monroe single

Lumière Cinématographe Camera, Printer, and Projector, 1895

Hat worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Belt buckle for the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures owned by Bob Minor

Hollywood Movie Fliers Will Be in Okmulgee

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane

Fur coat worn by Max Julien as Goldie in the film The Mack

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Lunch Box

Circular gray model of an alien spacecraft. The top tier contains vertical, tubular spires. Rods protrude along the circumference of the middle tier. All set on a saucer-like base.

Model, Spacecraft, Mother Ship, Movie, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Best Actress Oscar for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", 1967

Painting

Film Classic


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