Cattle Ranch

Genres

Documentary

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This short documentary offers a portrait of life on a cattle ranch, for both its human and animal inhabitants. Featuring sprightly music by folk singer Pete Seeger and narration by theatre actress Frances Hyland, the film is shot through the seasons on a large Canadian cattle ranch near Kamloops, British Columbia. With hundreds of cows and calves on the ranch, there’s no shortage of work to be done: soil cultivation and crop maintenance are taken care of by seasonal ranch hands while the resident cowboys—“anxious guardians”—brand and breed their bovine charges.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

20 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

01 May 1961

Country

Canada

Cast

Thérèse Arbic

Narrator (French Version)

Frances Hyland

Narrator (English Version)

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