Bill Pickett The Bull-Dogger Three Sheet Movie Poster
- 1921
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27 x 81 inches ~ (68 x 205 cm)$325
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Please note we are missing the center panel of this rare poster, we have the top and bottom portions, the ghosted middle poster shown is for reference only. Folded as original on very brittle paper with small tears in the fold lines and small paper losses.
The Bull-Dogger, Richard E. Norman silent black African American south-of-the-border matador bullfighting cowboy western.
The Norman Film MFG.Co. Presents Bill Pickett World's Colored Champion in "The Bull-Dogger,"
Bill Pickett fighting a wild Mexican Bull
Death Defying Feats of Courage and Skill
Thrills! Laughs too!
Produced by Norman Film MFG. CO. Jacksonville, FLA
Starring Bill Pickett, Bennie Turpin, Anita Bush, and Steve Reynolds.
Richard E. Norman was a white filmmaker who hit on the idea of making all-black African American movies, realizing that there was a large audience for such movies among black African Americans of that time. His movies had only black performers, and did not center on their race, but were similar to Hollywood movies of that time in plot. For this movie, he approached Bill Pickett, who was, at that time, a 50 year old legendary black cowboy, credited with inventing "bulldogging" (also called "steer wrestling"), and hired him to star in this movie, which had a nominal plot, but the main purpose of the film was to show Pickett and other black cowboys perform great stunts of all kinds. Publicity for the movie quoted President Teddy Roosevelt saying "Bill Pickett's name will go down in Western history as being one of the best trained ropers and riders the West has produced."! Sadly, this is considered a lost film, and only fragments of it survive.
