<i>Buffalo Bill in Three Reels</i> Movie Poster
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Poster for the movie <i>Buffalo Bill in Three Reels</i>. The poster depicts, in color, William Cody on horseback atop a rock formation, with several Native Americans gathered below him. The poster is an advertisement for the first film biography of Cody produced by his company in 1912. Running three reels, or about 45 minutes long, this was an epic biopic by the standard of the time, though it was not commercially or critically successful. Several scenes were later borrowed and improved upon by Thomas Ince, a founder of the western film genre.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anthony Sapienza, DMD
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0119.08
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0119.08
label: accession number
content: 2018.0119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 28 1/4 in; 106.68 cm x 71.755 cm