Reno, Capital of Chance

Year Published: 1950

Complete Record: Shots of downtown Reno, Nevada. Lots of casinos. Commerce. Shots of suburban Reno. Rural Reno. Cows. Farm animals. Two young women milk a cow. One holds the jug while the other “cranks” the tail. Man in suit arrives in downtown Reno in a nice car. Frontier club sign. Woman struggles to mount a horse. Two women ride horses down country road. Woman on a donkey. Wagon parked in front of bar. Man with pipe pulls a mule through the woods in search of gold. Holds his pan in the stream. Finds a speck of gold dust, gives it to two women. Man drives in big car with woman. Stops at Harold’s Club. Great slow mothion rodeo footage. Man rides bull n front of big crowd. Man rides bucking Bronco. Man and woman enter court house. Woman kisses courthouse column. Another woman throws her wedding/ engagement ring into river.