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Eight lobby cards with photogravure illustrations of scenes from the movie. 28x35.5 cm. (11x13¾").

One of, if not the, last films from the Norman Film Co., a western epic filmed entirely in the area of Tatums, Oklahoma, an all-black town: Oil has been discovered on the range-land nears Tatus, and all ranching had been abandoned to the drilling of wildcat oil-wells. Richard E. Norman was an independent filmmaker who wrote, directed, filmed, edited, marketed and distributed “race films” in the teens and twenties, beginning with Sleepy Sam, the Sleuth, in 1915. These films, starring exclusively African American actors in non- stereotypical roles, carved Norman, a Caucasian Southerner, a niche in filmmaking history largely unknown. OCLC/WorldCat lists a 7-page mailer advertising the movie (3 copies), but not this set of lobby cards.