The Wild West of Today
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.138
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 363 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical travelogue produced for "Around the world in Sound and Pictures on the Magic Carpet of Movietone." Film is shot in the western United States and the first part of the film focuses on different animal herds including buffalo, cattle and sheep. Film also shows cowboys rounding up wild horses on a ranch in Montana. The film then moves on to depict the old "Wild West" with cowboys singing by the camp fire and shows a re-enactment of that time period by men and women in Tombstone, Arizona. The women sing and dance and the men ride horses. The film then shows a rodeo with men riding wild horses and broncos.

Legacy Keywords: Cowboys ; Herders ; Livestock ; Domestic animals ; Buffalo ; Ranching ; Horses ; Rodeos ; Dance ; Singing