[African Americana]: [Film]: Pickett, Bill:

$625 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE NORMAN FILM MFG. CO. 1614 LAURA ST. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. PRESENTS "THE BULL-DOGGER" FEATURING: BILL PICKETT AND THE GREATEST ARRAY OF WORLD CHAMPIONS EVER ASSEMBLED IN A MOTION PICTURE. TEEMING ... A scarce, photographically illustrated press booklet for celebrated Black cowboy and Wild West showman Bill "The Bull-Dogger" Pickett's starring film role. The film, advertised as "A Real Breath of the Virile Golden West" with "The Greatest Array of World Champions Ever Assembled In a Motion Picture," was produced by Norman Studios of Jacksonville, Florida. Norman Studios, founded by the White producer and director, Richard E. Norman, was one of the most prominent "race film" studios of the 1920s. Melodramas, westerns, and action-adventure films were all produced by the studio.The Bull-Dogger was their most famous western, and its star, Bill Pickett, was renowned as a cowboy before he even stepped before the cameras. Born in Travis County, Texas, in 1870 to a formerly enslaved father, Pickett worked as a cowboy from an early age, gaining notoriety for developing the technique of "bull-dogging"—wrestling a bull to the ground by its horns—an act featured in the film. He later joined the travelling 101 Wild West Show and appeared in a second western for Norman Studios called The Crimson Skull in 1922.This thoroughly illustrated press booklet was distributed to theatre owners to encourage them to show Pickett's film, which was "Staged on the Great Western Ranches and in Wellinton, Ok

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