Deer Hunting Home Movie

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Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1947

Complete Record: Feeding raccoons in a cage. Cars driving on snowy road. Freight train pulling out of station; view of train from above. Shots of harbor from a bridge or boat. Some choppy fast-motion shots of men loading stuff onto a train car. A pickup truck in the snow, snowball fight. Tent cabin in the woods with truck parked next to it. Man with gun in woods, snow everywhere. Blood on the snow. Dead deer in the snow, blood everywhere. Gutting deer carcass, dragging it by the antlers, tying it to the pickup truck. Taking the deer off the track, hanging deer on a tree to skin it. The deer look crucified. Shots of coyote (?) from a distance. Man throws a ball to a DOG; the DOG scales the side of a shed and gets the ball off the roof. More crucified deer. Deer hanging by antlers from a rope. Men poke at the carcass. The men wear red plaid shirts and pants. Man makes pancakes on campfire. Truck drives away with trailer attached; deer are in the trailer, lying on their backs with a blanket over them as if they were tucked into bed. Car with deer tied to roof. Line-up of cars with deer tied to them, waiting to be checked by ranger or forest service. CU shots of dead deer on different cars. Cars drive onto ferry. Ferry pulls out of dock. Shots of cars with dead deer from above.