2010.54.14856

A Separate Cinema
1992
27 in HIGH x 18 in WIDE
(68.58 cm HIGH x 45.72 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.14856

"Farrar Straus Ciroux/The Noonday Press" in white centered on the bottom edge. Verso of poster has a central column of black text titled "A Separate Cinema / Fifty Years Of Black-Cast Posters". The following text gives the credits, an excerpt and a description.

Poster has a black printed background. At the top is a reproduction of a poster showing an African American man in cowboy attire. At the bottom of the reproduced poster is "Bill Pickett / World''s Colored Champion in / ''The Bull-Dogger'' / featuring the colored hero of the Mexican bull ring / in death defying feats of courage and skill. / Thrills! Laughs Too! / produced by Norman Film MFG, Co. / Jacksonville, Fla." in yellow. Below the poster is "A Separate Cinema / Fifty Years Of Black-Cast Posters / John Kisch and Edward Mapp / Prefaced By Spike Lee - Introduction By Donald Bogle" in white and yellow.
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