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Instructions Analyze the provided image and answer the quest…

Instructions Analyze the provided image and answer the questions that follow. Source Poster for the film Space Is the Place, c. 1974 Space is the Place by North American Star System, 1974. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. CC.0.  Text along the top edge reads “A North American Star System Production.” Next, larger letters across the middle read “Sun Ra” and, curving along the bottom, “in Space Is the Place.” In the top half, the heads and bodies of six African American people have been cut from black and white photographs and layered against a starry, celestial-blue sky peppered with musical notes. Two women and one man dance, another sings, a doctor pulls on a glove, and the sixth wears a helmet and gestures with arms outstretched. In the bottom center of the lower half is the darkly shaded face of another African American man wearing a pharaoh’s headdress and chest piece. Atop the headdress has a gold orb the same size as the man’s head settled in the bottom curve of a tall, narrow U shape. He looks steadily out at us with his head slightly tipped back. Red sunbursts curve in from each side, and the bottom edge of the design is lined with tiny palm trees, pyramids, and an observatory. Text along the bottom edge of the poster reads, “with Ray Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, Erika Leder, Morgan Upton, Walter Burns, John Bailey, Clarence Brewer, Sinthia Ayala, La Shaa Stallings, and the Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra featuring John Gilmore and June Tyson. Screenplay by Joshua Smith, Produced by James Newman, Directed by John Coney, A Film from North American Star System in Cooperation with El Saturn Research.”