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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Breakfast in Camp
Author/Creator
Narrator: Stewart, Leslie J.
Smock, William H.
Fleischhauer, Carl, filmmakers
Created/Published
October 04,1979
Notes
Before dawn, Les Stewart shouts the men awake and serves the meal.
This video conveys a little of the mood of breakfast, which occurs early and with little talking. Les rousted the men at about five-thirty. In October it is too dark at that hour to shoot exteriors, and the opening shot was actually made after the men had eaten and left. The shout, however, is authentic.
I asked Les about the silent breakfast, and he said that the crew was "not what you'd call a conversational group of people." In fact, several factors account for the men's silence as they eat: the difficulty any person would have making small talk at that hour on a cold morning, Les's sober influence, and the presence of a film crew and bright lights in a normally dim cabin interior. The footage of Fred and Mel's midday conversation, however, demonstrates that filming is not necessarily fatal to conversation.
Subject
Activities
Food preparation
Breakfast
Line camps
Buckaroos
Ethnography
Motion Pictures
Ninety-Six Ranch
Object Type
Medium
16mm film
Language
English
Call Number
NV9-VT3
Digital ID
afc96ran v012
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.v012