Days Afield with Rod and Gun (silent)

Description: The Wapanoca Outing Club (Turrell, Arkansas) hunting ducks on Wapanocca Lake in the early 1920s. Notable scenes of African American men piloting boats for the white hunters, an outdoor lunch with broiled duck, and women hunting.

Titles:
"Forty years ago, in the heart or a howling wilderness, pioneer sportsmen from Memphis, Tennessee built a shack — —"
"Then they bought some 5,000 odd acres of water, swamp and timber jungles and settled down to enjoy themselves —"
"And then —"
"The pioneers passed away, but their sportsmanship and rules of conservation have endured."
"RULE 6. Members are not permitted to leave the boathouse before 7 A.M."
"No guns fired on feeding grounds."
"In 'Little Lake' we got our first view of 'a few ducks.'"
"These fellows came over to saw 'Howdy.'"
"At the entrance to Big Lake, Goose gangs blaring with the thunderous roar of myriad rising ducks drown the drumfire of our pulse."
"Fast power boats kick up a dust."
"Putting out the live decoys."
"The first bird dropped out of this flight."
"Missed him!"
"Buck talking Duck."
"Q-u-a-c-k Quack Quack."
"Going to keep an important engagement — —"
"— with the ladies at the Ritz."
"Let Hard Times and Ole High Cos' knock at de' doh'."
"Broiled teal and fried bacon an — an — ever'thing"
"The afternoon is devoted to the lady-Nimrods."
"Down in this part of the country the 'women folks' handle their own shooting irons 'to the Queen's taste.'"
"To hit is history — To miss is mystery."
"Sank, pick up the ducks."
"Out of range."
"Mark left and centre."
"A right and left for that bird."
"RULE 17. No shooting permitted after 4 p.m."




Can notes: "Duck Shooting on Wapanoca Lake / No K-110[4]-J

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1920s, Hunting, Black history and culture

Tags: hunting shack; Wapanoca Outing Club; lakes; sunrise over lake; wrist watch showing 7:03; rifles; ducks; Black men piloting pole boats for white hunters; Black labor; African American people; row boats; flocks of birds in sky; decoys; duck calls; pulling boats through mud; picnics; campfires; outdoor cooking; grilling; nimrods; duck whistles; woman hunting; Duck Shooting on Wapanoca Lake; white gun culture

Film Sponsor: Field and Stream Magazine

Creator: Eltinge F. Warner, T. Nash Buckingham

Credits: Presented by: Field and Stream, America's Magazine for the Outdoorsman
Distributed by: W.W. Hodkinson Corporation.
Directed by Eltinge F. Warner and T. Nash Buckingham. Photographed by Harry G. Mason with the Akeley Camera.

Distributor: W.W. Hodkinson Corporation

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Orgone Archives, Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1923

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Arkansas; Wapanocca Lake; Turrell, Arkansas

Genre/Form: sponsored

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 378