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Black Gold, 1928
An oil well burns behind a kissing couple.
What
A 1928 one-sheet for Black Gold, a Western made by Norman Studios as a race film, with an African-American cast for an African-American audience.
Why
The sheet hung in Poster House's exhibition Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen.
Notice
The heading reads "Action! Love! Thrills!" and the sheet bills "An All-Colored Cast" and "the entire All-Colored City of Tatums, Oklahoma".
“An oil-field epic from Tatums”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Black Gold (1928)
- Country / studio
- United States · Norman Film Manufacturing
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family