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Vacation Days

Vacation Days
Clip: 373163_1_1
Year Shot:
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 510
Original Film: WPA 132
HD: N/A
Location: Colorado
Timecode: -

Robert M. Altman Presents Vacation Days in Colorado. Shot from moving car of rocky valley, then MS woman writing. Shots of storm clouds. MS girls in dude ranch clothing getting ready for rain. 02:32:35 Man feeding chipmunks who crawl up his leg. More scenery shots, horseback riding. 02:35:42 CU plaque for Land o Peaks Ranch, scenes of kids in mock-Indian garb at teepee and making smoke signals. 02:39:28 CU book cover, The Spell of the Rockies, and a young hand turns the pages (we see that it s Flora Louise s book). People dancing, including two women in horse riding breeches and boots. Kids float on raft in small body of water, try to keep their balance, and get off just in time. 02:41:20 MS man cooking on camp fire, people drinking from canteens and eating. 02:42:48 WS cows on farm, farmer with kid, and young cows in pen. 02:43:40 MS 3 girls with buckets ready to milk them cows, and rather dim shots of them doing so. Girl playing with dog, standing on her head. 02:51:34 title says Flora Louise Altman, March 21st 1927. Curtain rises on figurine holding a Robert M Altman Presents card, various takes of this. 02:52:17 CU barely legible title, Turkey Run 1932. People on a suspension footbridge, walking, hiking. They climb up wooden ladders and down again.