Talk:chromo

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Another interpretation

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There is a scene at an art auction in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller film North by Northwest in which the character Roger Thornhill disrupts the auction by claiming one of the items is a worthless "chromo". This may be related to the definition already given in the entry under Etymology 1, a chromolithograph, but it also carries the implication of something that is of inferior quality or value, or something that is bogus. — Foxtrot1296 (talk) 20:44, 16 July 2022 (UTC)Reply