- Title: VM-1446
- Summary: HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS: COMPARISON OF GAME CONDITIONS AND HUNTING ON OPEN FARM LAND & ON REGULATED GAME PRESERVE. SHOWS DOGS & HUNTERS IN ACTION. WITH HUNTERS JAMES HELFRICH & HERMAN MYERS
- Description:00:17:17 - ELDERLY COUPLE SEATED IN EASY CHAIRS IN LIVING ROOM. LARGE HUNTING DOG BY HIS MASTER JIM WHO MAKES PHONE CALL TO HUNTING BUDDY. 00:17:22 - ELDERLY MAN ANSWERS PHONE 00:18:05 - HUNTER RINGS DOORBELL AT FARM HOUSE 00:18:10 - FARMER ANSWERS DOOR & TELLS HUNTER HE CANNOT HUNT ON HIS LAND. 00:18:40 - 1950s STATION WAGON STOPS AT SIGN ALONG COUNTRY ROAD. 00:18:43 - TWO HUNTERS GET OUT OF CAR & READ SIGN: "KEEP OUT" 00:18:46 - MONNTAGE SIGNS AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS: "NO HUNTING", "NO TRESPASSING" 00:18:51 - VIEW OF COUNTRY HOMES & ROAD AS SEEN THROUGH WINDSHIELD OF MOVING CAR. 00:18:56 - HUNTER RINGS DOORBELL OF FARM HOUSE. 00:19:01 - FARMER COMES OUT & WELCOMES HUNTERS TO HUNT ON HIS LAND. 00:19:34 - HUNTERS WITH RIFLES IN HAND LET OUT HUNTING DOG FROM TAILGATE OF STATION WAGON 00:19:58 - VARIOUS SCENES TWO HUNTERS WITH RIFLES READY WALK SLOWLY THROUGH HIGH GRASSLAND LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF PHEASANT. DOG ROAMING FIELD IN BKGD. 00:21:16 - TWO HUNTERS & DOG COMING TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:21:21 - JIM REMOVES SHELLS FROM RIFLE & HANDS IT TO PARTNER BEFORE CAREFULLY CLIMBING OVER BARBED WIRE FENCE. HUNTING SAFETY. 00:22:01 - POINTER HUNTING DOG STOPS & POINTS TOWARDS BIRD. 00:22:06 - HUNTERS AIM & FIRE AT BIRD FLYING IN DISTANT SKY. MISS SHOT 00:22:38 - DISGUSTED, TWO HUNTERS DECIDE TO REST. & HAVE SMOKE. 00:22:48 - HUNTERS STAND TO LEAVE. FULLY STAMP OUT CIGARETTE BUTTS. 00:23:55 - TIRED DOGS ARE HELPED INTO STATION WAGON. MEN CLOSE TAILGATE. 00:24:30 - SIGN: "SPRUCE ACRES SHOOTING PRESERVE. PHEASANT & DUCK HUNTING" 00:24:35 - HOST AT PRESERVE SHOWS HUNTERS STUFFED PHEASANT. 00:24:40 - HUTNERS SIT AT BAR & ARE SERVED HOT COFFEE AS HOST EXPLAINS PRESERVE RULES. 00:24:50 - JIM IS GIVEN FORM TO REGISTER FOR HUNTING LICENSE. 00:25:50 - HUNTERS DRIVE UP TO HUNTING SITE & GET OUT OF CAR WEARING REQUIRED WHITE SAFETY VESTS 00:26:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUNTERS & DOGS BEGIN HUNT THROUGH GROUNDS OF IDEAL BIRD COVER AT PRESERVE. 00:27:08 - HUNTING DOG SPOTS PREY & POINTS. 00:27:13 - PHEASANT FLIES INTO SKY 00:27:15 - HUNTERS FIRE AT FLYING BIRD 00:27:18 - DOG RETRIEVES DEAD RINGED-NECK PHEASANT. 00:27:23 - HUNTERS WALKING & DOGS RUNNING AROUND HIGH GRASS LOOKING FOR BIRDS 00:28:52 - DOG LOCK ON TO PREY 00:28:55 - HUNTER SLOWLY ADVANCES TO SPOT. 00:29:00 - BIRD TAKES FLIGHT, HUNTERS SHOOT, BIRD FALLS FROM SKY. 00:29:10 - GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER DOG WITH BIRD IN MOUTH 00:29:15 - DOG DROPS DEAD BIRD AT HUNTER'S FEET. 00:29:39 - BIRD IN FLIGHT FALLS AFTER BEING SHOT. 00:30:08 - HUNTERS KNEEL ON GROUND & CHECK OUT THIER KILL 00:30:13 - CU FOUR DEAD ROOSTER PHEASANTS ON GROUND. 00:30:18 - CU SMILING FACES OF HUNTERS. 00:30:55 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUNTERS MARCHING OFF, EACH WITH TWO BIRDS IN HAND 00:31:00 - MEET ANOTHER HUNTER CARRYING DUCKS IN EACH HAND 00:31:30 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUNTERS TREK OUT TO LAKE TO TRAP SHOOT MALLARD DUCKS 00:31:40 - HUTNERS SET UP BEHIND BLIND ALONG LAKE. 00:32:15 - HERMAN RAISES FOUR FINGERS. HUNTER BRAGS, SELF ASSURED HE WILL HIT DUCK BEFORE EXPENDING 4 SHELLS. 00:32:20 - CU LOADING FOUR MAGNUM SHELLS INTO BREACH OF SHOTGUN. 00:32:25 - LABRADOR RETRIEVERS & HANDLER WAITS FOR ACTION UNDER BLIND NEARBY. 00:33:03 - HUNTERS WAIT FOR ACTION, SHOTGUNS READY. 00:33:08 - MALLARD DUCK IN FLIGHT SPEEDS BY THEN LANDS IN LAKE. 00:33:13 - HUNTERS MISS TAKING SHOTS. 00:33:18 - HERMAN FIRES AT TWO DUCKS IN FLIGHT BUT MISSES. 00:33:23 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUNTERS FIRING AT SPEEDING DUCKS & MISSING BADLY. 00:33:33 - DUCKS LANDING SAFELY IN LAKE. 00:34:28 - HUNTERS CONVINCED IT WILL NOT BE EASY LOADS MORE SHELLS IN SHOTGUN. 00:34:48 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUNTERS FIRING & MISSING. 00:35:13 - DUCK IN FLIGHT HIT BY GUNFIRE FALLS TO GROUND. 00:35:18 - RETRIEVER DOG RUNS OUT TO COLLECT IT 00:35:23 - HUNTER TAKES DEAD DUCK OUT OF DOG'S MOUTH. 00:35:28 - MORE FIRING & MISSING. 00:36:23 - HERMAN EATING SANDWICH. QUICKLY PLACES IT IN HIS MOUTH AS DUCK PASSES OVERHEAD 00:36:28 - SHOOTS WITH SANDWICH IN MOUTH & MISSES 00:36:40 - JIM FIRES & HITS BIRD IN FLIGHT. 00:36:45 - HUNTERS DUCK AS BIRD CRASHES INTO BLIND ALONGSIDE THEM. 00:36:50 - HUNTERS WITH CATCH IN HANDS 00:36:55 - DOG HANDLER & DOGS WALK AWAY SATISFIED. 00:37:10 - HUNTERS WALK OUT OF BASEMENT OF HOUSE WITH BOTH HANDS FULL WITH DAY'S CATCH ALL TAGGED TO PROVE LEGALITY OF BIRDS. 00:37:42 - HUNTERS ARRIVE HOME 00:37:47 - JIM GETS OUT OF STATION WAGON & TAKES BIRDS OUT OF BACK SEAT. 00:37:52 - WIFE & TWO KIDS COME OUT TO GREET HIM. 00:37:57 - JIM GIVES BIRDS TO HIS BOYS & ALL WALK INTO MODEST SUBURBAN HOUSE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1446