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El Rancho and Castaways promotional video raw footage and b-roll

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 1989 (year approximate)

Description

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. From the Production Company Audiovisual Collection (MS-00930) -- Digitized audiovisual material file.

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The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, May 18, 1950

Date

1950-05-18

Archival Collection

Description

Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club

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Photograph of a change of command ceremony, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Change of command ceremony outside of U.S. Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center (later U.S. Air Force Warfare Center) building, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

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