Popular Entertainment - Overview
This Museum's popular entertainment collections hold some of the Smithsonian's most beloved artifacts. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz reside here, along with the Muppet character Kermit the Frog, and props from popular television series such as M*A*S*H and All in the Family. But as in many of the Museum's collections, the best-known objects are a small part of the story.
The collection also encompasses many other artifacts of 19th- and 20th-century commercial theater, film, radio, and TV—some 50,000 sound recordings dating back to 1903; posters, publicity stills, and programs from films and performances; puppets; numerous items from World's Fairs from 1851 to 1992; and audiovisual materials on Groucho Marx, to name only a few.
"Popular Entertainment - Overview" showing 3 items.
sound recording: Frog Prince, The
- Description (Brief)
- The Muppets. THE FROG PRINCE. (Columbia CC23530)
- 33-1/3 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1971
- maker
- Columbia
- ID Number
- 2005.0298.04
- accession number
- 2005.0298
- maker number
- CC23530
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Bustin' Loose Part 1
- Description (Brief)
- Phonograph record is Bustin' Loose Part 1 by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. It is housed in an album cover that is worn and torn with masking tape holding it together. The cover is blue with a red circle design in the left corner ans is autographed by DJ Grandmaster Flash. The phonograph record is marked with an arrow and is scratched in a circular pattern on one part of the record. This record was used by Grandmaster Flash to make the unique rap sound of "scratching" on a turntable.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1978
- maker
- Nouveau Music Company
- ID Number
- 2006.0060.02.1
- accession number
- 2006.0060
- catalog number
- 2006.0060.02.1
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Bustin' Loose Part 1
- Description (Brief)
- Phonograph record is Bustin' Loose Part 1 by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. It is housed in an album cover that is worn and torn with masking tape holding it together. The cover is blue with a red circle design in the left corner ans is autographed by DJ Grandmaster Flash. The phonograph record is marked with an arrow and is scratched in a circular pattern on one part of the record. This record was used by Grandmaster Flash to make the unique rap sound of "scratching" on a turntable.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1978
- maker
- Nouveau Music Company
- ID Number
- 2006.0060.02.2
- accession number
- 2006.0060
- catalog number
- 2006.0060.02.2
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center