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Western films

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Ben Johnson film archive, 1908-1994

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-033
Scope and Contents Filmed interviews and photographs collected by filmmaker Tom Thurman for the preparation of the documentary Ben Johnson; Third Cowboy on the Right. Includes material on the Johnson family, the Chapman-Barnard Ranch, and interviews on Ben Johnson's film career with James Coburn, Peter Bogdanovich, Harry Carey, Jr., Charlton Heston, John Milius, Lawrence Tierney, Lee Purcell, Bo Hopkins, Sheila Benson, LQ Jones, Joe McBride, Timothy Bottoms, Polly Platt, Robert Golden Armstrong, and Harry Dean...
Dates: 1908 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Black Gold, 1928

 File
Identifier: 1500.030
Scope and Contents

Advertising and promo material.


The Norman Studios Present Black Gold, One of the True Stories of Living Colored Examples.


Featuring Lawrence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Steve Reynolds (Peg), Alfred Norcom, U.S. Marshal L.B. Tatums, and the entire all-colored City of Tatums, Oklahoma.


Stirring Epic of the Oil Fields. All Colored Cast

Dates: 1928
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Motion picture archive

Blazing the Western Trail, 1945

 Item — Map-case 5, drawer: 9
Identifier: 1500.030
Scope and Contents

Blazing the Western Trail. Roaring Guns...Strumming Guitars...Sizzling Action!

Starring Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid, with Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews, Bob Wills and His Texas Play Boys. Original screenplay by J. Benton Cheney. Produced by Colbert Clark. Directed by Vernon Keays. Columbia Pictures Corp. Advertisement property of National Screen Service Corp.

Dates: 1945
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Motion picture archive
Sheet music for "Cimarron".
Sheet music for "Cimarron".

Cimarron, 1960, 1961

 Item
Identifier: 1979.028.5
Scope and Contents

"Cimarron." From the MGM production, "Cimarron", starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, and Arthur O'Connell. Screenplay by Arnold Schulman. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Copyright Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Robbins Music Corporation.

Dates: Copyright: 1960, 1961
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Sheet music collection, 1890-1950 / Waxman, Franz

Motion picture archive

 Collection
Identifier: 1500-030
Scope and Contents

Advertising and promotional material for a variety of film genres including western and musicals; MGM & Universal Studios Story Department memos and synopses; production archive for "Ocean's Eleven"; performer promotional head shots.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

The Bull Dogger, 1921

 Item
Identifier: 1500.030.1
Scope and Contents

Original stone lithographed three sheet movie poster of the movie of the 101 Ranch and bulldogger Bill Pickett. The original 5 reel movie is believed to be lost, although some fragmentary bits survive.

Dates: 1921
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Motion picture archive

The Life of Jesse James, 1930

 File — Map-case 5, drawer: 9
Identifier: 1500.030
Scope and Contents

"Coming Soon: The Sensational Western Melodrama in Motion Pictures founded on acutual indicents in the life of the world's most famous outlaw Jesse James...."


Motion picture poster promoting the grand 1930 triumphal tour of the film.

Dates: Publication: 1930
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Motion picture archive

"The Naked Spur" movie archive, 1953.

 Collection
Identifier: 1994-009
Content Description Collection of production material relating to the 1953 film The Naked Spur, written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom. The material includes 451 black and white stills, color film fragments and color negatives; a mimeograph typed script with autograph corrections; a list of the production crew, correspondence pertaining to censors and the Humane Association, production schedule, director's cutting notes, wardrobe and makeup notes with 43 reference photographs tipped in.Includes...
Dates: 1952 - 1953
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Vengeance valley photographs, 1951

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1000-048
Content Description Collection of 458 black and white reference photographs and stills, 311 of which are contained in 32 full or partial contact sheets, documenting cast members, wardrobe, hair, and makeup shots for the western film, Vengeance Valley.The script for Vengeance Valley was written by Irving Ravetch and based on the novel by Luke Short. The film starred Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland and Hugh O'Brian. It was directed by Richard Thorpe with George...
Dates: 1951
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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