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Auction History Result 4x027 HALLELUJAH 8x10.25 still 1929 lobby display w/cotton plants, 1st all-Negro drama in history! Date Sold 3/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Hallelujah, the 1929 King Vidor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) all-black-cast African American musical ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Singing Picture"; one of the first all-black productions from a major studio; in this case, MGM; a great story of a tenant farmer who sells his family's cotton in the big city, but is then lured by a dance hall girl into a crooked crap game, and he loses all the money, and he tries to shoot the man who cheated him, but he kills his brother instead, and that causes him to "find religion", and he becomes a preacher, but later, the dance hall girl finds religion too, and he dumps his faithful girl for her, but later, the crooked gambler shows up and the dance hall girl goes away with him, and the preacher tracks them both down and they both die, and the preacher is sentenced to the chain gang, and finds his faithful girl waiting for him when he gets out) starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fannie Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait, and Matthew 'Stymie' Beard NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Everyone knows that first release movie paper from this 1929 all-black movie is beyond scarce. It is amazing and shocking to us to see that this theater (located in North Carolina) chose to advertise it by filling their lobby with cotton plants and a basket filled with cotton balls, with a large cut out figure of a black tenant farmer with a basket of picked cotton over his shoulder! There are also signs advertising the movie on the walls, and one of them says "The first all Negro drama in history, The frankest picture ever shown". Note that in recent auctions we have auctioned small photos of theater fronts from the 1930s and 1940s, which came from a scrapbook that the man who created those theater fronts compiled. The scrapbook also contained eight larger photos (most close to 8x10), and we are auctioning those final eight larger photos in this set of auctions (each in its own auction). In addition, we are also auctioning a different really cool collection of mostly 1930s 8x10 stills that show theater fronts and lobby displays (many of them have a stamp from a Boston company on the back, so it seems likely that most or all of them are from theaters in the Boston area)! All of those stills are in that set of auctions (in separate auctions). Also note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Condition: fair to good. There are yellowed tape stains in the corners. There is surface paper loss in the upper left and small surface paper loss in the background behind the final "H" of the title (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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