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El Rancho and Castaways promotional video raw footage and b-roll: video, approximately 1980 to 1989

Level of Description

File

Identifier

MS_00930_137

Scope and Contents

Footage opens with multiple takes of an actor dressed in "cowboy" attire, carrying a saddle through the desert, then riding on a horse-drawn buggy with another man in cowboy boots. The men are pretending to lasso and whip the horses driving their buggy, and periodically switch off driving and lassoing. Switches to a close up of a man wearing an "El Rancho" belt buckle, gun holsters, and chaps; the camera is focused on the man gesturing to the camera, showing the coins in his hand. Various other scenes related to this western-cowboy themed promotion are shown. Video cuts in an out, no audio. Second segment begins around 26:00 and is multiple takes of an actress in costume as an owl motioning her arms and responding to voiceover cues (close up only); the advertisement is for Castaways "night owl" special for $1.99. The camera then pans out and she is posing and dancing to music, her costume includes feathers on her arms to look like a bird's wings. Original media 1 Inch SMPTE Type B, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.

Date

1980 to 1989

Extent

1 digital_files (.MP4)
1 Reels

Container

To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00930
Collection Name: The Production Company Audiovisual Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
English