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Tom Selleck Salem Cigarette Ad

Major collection: Holography
Named collection: Holography Collection
Object type: hologram
Maker: Multiplex Moving Holograms
Date made: circa 1976
Materials: 120° integral stereogram (Multiplex); film
Measurements: 9 1/2 in x 17 in
Nomenclature: commercial
Classification: holograms

Rainbow-colored portrait of actor Tom Selleck in an advertisement display for Salem cigarettes; when viewer stands to left of hologram, he is shown from chest up while gazing at the viewer, holding a cigarette in his right hand, which is out and to the left of his body; as viewer moves right, he moves to cigarette to his lips, inhales, and then lowers the cigarette down and to the right of his body; as viewer moves to right, a pack of Salem cigarettes is shown below, which moves across the hologram until it disappears to the right.


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MOH-1993.47.195