Filmmaking Techniques: Going on Location

Duration: 8:00

Year Published: 1973

Complete Record: Educational film about shooting films on location. Opens with a man, a woman with long blonde hair and a cameraman in 1970s clothes walking up hill full of scrub brush. Cuts to group of same people standing near a busy street next to a blue 1960s or 70s blue station wagon with 76 gas station in background. Man in brown polyester vest walks into phone booth as red convertible truck pulls up beside him. Caravan of truck, station wagon, white van and two more cars takes off. Cuts to horses feeding in a lot in the bare California hills. Group unloads film equipment from white van. Woman with long blonde hair in purple pants puts makeup on another woman with long blonde hair in pigtails. Man with mustache and brown leather jacket leads horse into horse trailer. Guitar picking music in background. Cameraman films woman in pigtails and man in leather jacket leading the horse around. Shots of horse running around gated area. Old hillbilly man in flannel shirt appears, puts up No Trespassing sign, Young man in cowboy hat riding horse is filmed and signs license to us his image. Indoor shot of pigtailed woman and mustached man entering office, then talking to bearded man in suit in factory. Three of them enter car and drive away.