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(FILM.)
Bill Pickett, World’s Greatest Colored Champion. “The Bull-
Dogger.”
One sheet poster, 41 x 27 inches, faint signs of creases where once folded.
Jacksonville Florida: Norman Films, 1921
[7,500/10,000]
The “Bull-Dogger” is quite possibly the rarest African American film poster ever made. Bill
Pickett (1867-1932) was a genuine cowboy. He invented the practice of what we call “bull-
dogging,” or steer wrestling. Like a lot of what used to be strictly ranch activities, bulldogging
has become a rodeo sport.
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(FILM.) CRIME/WESTERN.
Flaming Crisis.
Bright pictorial poster 25
1
⁄
2
x
39
1
⁄
2
inches; a few wrinkles. Not examined out of the old frame.
New York City: Monarch Films, 1924
[4,000/6,000]
A RARE POSTER FROM A BLACK OWNED PRODUCTION COMPANY
.
Calvin Nicholson
plays a newspaperman who exposes a corrupt local labor leader. As a result he is set up and
accused of murder. Later, after escaping from prison, he heads to the cattle country out West.
The rest of the film is basically a series of short episodes. This poster is an uncommon variant.
Not pictured in Mapp and Kisch’s Separate Cinema.
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