Before You Hunt...

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1973

Complete Record: Animation of an older man teaching a younger man the history and basics of hunting. Intercuts live action shots with the cartoon. Proposes that hunters helped control the regulations and saved some species from extinction, as well as overpopulation. Discusses hunter ethics and safety. Animation of 2 silhouetted hunters waiting at sunrise- one of them starts shooting wildly. Older hunter teaches younger one (and his DOG) about the history of hunting. Animation of the hunters. U.S. map with superimposed images of development. More animation saying that hunters started game-management, not the Government. Montage of birds and animals. Men shopping for shotguns. Wildlife preserve- shots of birds, camping, children playing. Dead deer. Dead deer hung upside down from a tree. Hunting DOG runs through the field. Bear in the woods. Vandals having shot up roadsigns. Diagram of “bird shot trajectory”. Shot through a piece of wood. Slo-mo shot of a can being blown away. Loading up shotgun. Bullets on ground. 3 men go duck hunting and kill some.