Reel

Various historical recreation (re-enactment) shots of a Gold Rush-era miner strolling along the banks of the American River, finding a gold nugget.

TLSs of cloudless blue sky, tilt down to TLS of James Marshall (man dressed as haggard gold prospector of the Gold Rush era) standing or kneeling by the American River in Coloma, California.

MCUs of muddy river, rocks protruding surface; the hand of a white man dressed as a Gold Rush era gold prospector plucks a nugget of gold from the river.