Hunting Fishing In South America Footage

Hunting & Fishing in South America
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	Catalog #:	437051
	Clip Number:	437051-1
	Orginal Film:	WPA 855
	Timecode:
	Location:	Guyana
	Year Shot:	1967 (Estimated Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	ANIMALS/GENERAL: Ethics & Issues
	Description:	A more specific title would be, "Sportsmen Stalking Water Buffalo and Killing a Slew of Uniquely Indigenous Ducks and Fish in Guyana". Just as soon as the VO describes an unusual creature, a visitor and her two colonist buddies are well on their to killing it. MS's young local woman in yellow dress dancing; MS's steel drum band playing in gazebo in Guyana. Map of Guyana. LS medium-sized plane taking off. Aerials of river, tropical rainforests, grand waterfalls, etc. LS's land rover pulling onto remote cattle ranch, a young woman getting out and hugged by her ranch-owning uncle. MS's & LS's Brazilian cowboys (vaquero) -- distinctive for their long hilted leather whips, aggressive roping style and fast mounts-- herding large brahma-like cattle from open range and into corral; MS's cattle; shots of stray and runaway cattle being roped, brought down, and ushered back into herd; MS two cowboys drinking beer, standing by corralàà MS's tropical flowers blooming. LS's hunters meeting at ranch, getting into land rover and driving onto range, armed with compound bows and shotguns. LS's men chasing herd of wild horses with land rover. MS's tall termite hill, one of the hunters hacking it open with a machete. MS's man showing other man how to bow an arrow properlyàà aerials of rainforest area as seaplane descends, lands on river. MS's water buffalo grazing in area by river, hunters stalking them at a "safe distance"; the hunters decide the bulls are much too small to kill so they depart; MS's men drinking beer, toasting one anotheràà LS's Muscovy ducks in flight, men hunting them with arrow and bullet; MS's man wading in river, collecting fallen duck carcasses; MS's ducks strung up at campàà MS/CU man showing young woman how to spin-fish with rod and reelàà LS's men driving land rover into open range. LS's men boating along shallow river (many sandbars); subjective shots of ride along lagoons, into Amazon basin. MS's men fishing the lukinani (sp); in one hour they have a huge catch. MS's man bowfishing the legendary arapaima, a large fresh water fish of prehistoric decent that can grow up to 15' long and 500 lbs; man successfully spears one, then reels it on board; they motor for shore, where they stretch the large fish out and smile upon it as though they had done something good.