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

Level of Description

File

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.

Archival Collection

The Production Company Audiovisual Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00930
Collection Name: The Production Company Audiovisual Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Noble family residence, menu

Date

1854 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

Note: Double coats of arms beneath a French marquis crown, flanked by unicorns, on the cover with the legend "Fidel a Son Roy et a l'Honneur." The right-hand coat-of-arms (viewer's left) is de La Croix de Castries (d'azur à la croix d'or), a French family originally from Montpellier (Languedoc), whose members were French Marshalls, Bishops, Ducs (1784) and Peers. Members of the family of the senior and minor line also make use of the titles Marquis and Baron. The coat of arms on the viewer's right is unidentified Restaurant: Noble Family residence

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