Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Burlesque bullfight with a small bull butting a female-dressed character as a man in a top hat and formal dress costume watches and another female character in Spanish dress dashes across the foreground. Spectators watch from an elevated bench behind the stockyard fence. A few Los Angeles Times articles published between 1922-1924 report about "Charlotada" bullfights in Spain, which were burlesque bullfights featuring a Charlie Chaplin character as a toreador. These performances were part of an effort to have bullfights banned. One of the 3 photographs of this burlesque bullfight in Los Angeles shoes a Chaplinesque character (image ark no. 21198/zz002dbm9w). Handwritten on negative: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards Text from negative sleeve: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1195 ark:/21198/zz002dbmbd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stockyards--California--Los Angeles Bullfighting--California--Los Angeles
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