Film Identifier: F.2004-02-0030

Part Of: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001

Run Time
0h 19m 37s

Format
16mm

Color
Color

Sound
Optical

Date Produced
circa 1980

Abstract
Educational film promoting land and population management with the practice of regulated hunting. Men load and clean guns, shoot at firing ranges, and hunt fowl in fields. Some shots of deer, buffalo, fowl, and the Wisconsin Licensed Game Farm.

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Most shots are still or handheld following action. CU of details, shooting, cleaning rifles, etc. 00:00 - opening credits over footage of row boat POV with hunting rifle on board rowing down river, narrator discusses deer starving from overpopulation, no animal dies of old age 00:52 - handheld MLS buffalo walking in woods, herd of deer running through woods 01:14 - LS PANNING forest across body of water 01:28 - Var shots MLS hunters walking through grassy fields, edge of forest with hunting dog, sign ”Wisconsin Licensed Game Farm” 02:14 - Var shots instructor observes as man loads hunting rifle 04:48 - Var shots men shooting clay pigeons, instructor gives advice 06:23 - dog POV running through field, MLS, MS men shooting pheasants and duck in field, dog retrieves kill, birds taking off in flight 10:35 - CU fire, Var MS men interior cabin, cleaning guns, discussing gun history 15:13 - Var LS fog rising in field 15:53 - ZOOM IN Var shots man walking in field, LA canopy, discussing decline in population of natural predators, history and ethics of deer/land management practice 18:36-19:37 - MLS buffalo, herds of deer, white deer, man walking in field with rifle

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