The Wild and the West
The world of western movies is a peculiar place; roaming heroes, towering cacti, big skies and cinemascope wildlife. This documentary is an epic showdown in HD; legends of the wild west against Americas true wilderness.
Some of the wildest and most impressive sceneries of the North American continent have been immortalised in famous Western movies. And some of the heroes and villains have been wild animals; the lone wolf, the howling coyote, the foreboding vulture, the deadly rattler, all staged in a natural world much bigger than life. The Wild and the West is a tongue-in -cheek exploration into the glory and the realities of the Wild West.
Some of the wildest and most impressive sceneries of the North American continent have been immortalised in famous Western movies. And some of the heroes and villains have been wild animals; the lone wolf, the howling coyote, the foreboding vulture, the deadly rattler, all staged in a natural world much bigger than life. The Wild and the West is a tongue-in -cheek exploration into the glory and the realities of the Wild West.
00.00.03 Man on horse, Joe Deming, imitating Clint Eastwood from the Dollars trilogy/The Good the Bad and the Ugly
00.00.55 Title cards, western font
00.01.25 Joe rides horse on sunset past some quite striking American monoliths
00.02.38 Horse walks past sand dunes, possibly Death Valley
00.02.01 Footage from old westerns, usually cowboys storming some Indians
00.02.17 Overhead shot of rushing river, possibly the Colorado, in a deep gorge
00.02.21 Clip of blonde 50s starlet on raft
00.02.35 Tight shot on rattlesnake, possibly a Western diamondback
00.03.55 Footage of John Ford and John Wayne on the set
00.04.28 Turkey vulture perched on tree root
00.05.20 Dehydrated man staggering along some sand dunes, turkey vultures soaring overhead
00.06.17 Close-up of the turkey vulture
00.06.43 Raven picking at dead meat
00.07.18 Pan of sand dunes
00.07.45 Horse and rider walking towards bleached human skeleton
00.08.05 The West in bloom during springtime
00.08.45 Squirrel reaching up to flower
00.08.59 River running through desert, with fish, shots of cacti and scrub (the creosote)
00.10.22 Joe huddling by campfire at night
00.10.59 Barn owl screeching
00.11.19 Coyote running through the dark
00.12.58 Joe spies on a 'singing cowboy' singing a country song, clips of old singing cowboys from old Westerns
00.14.13 Clips of women in Westerns
00.15.59 Scorpions dropping out of boot
00.16.29 Bark scorpion crawling down a sand hill
00.17.11 Pan of different types of cactuses, mostly saguaros
00.18.29 Prop man carrying off paper cutout of cactus
00.19.06 Aerial shots of Monument Valley
00.20.15 Clips of Monument Valley in cinema, mostly featuring John Wayne
00.21.13 Navajo hogans, and sheep
00.22.06 Actors in cavalry uniform throwing dirt on themselves, each other
00.22.59 Cavalrymen leading their horses along a path
00.24.43 Herd of horses trotting together
00.25.15 Mustangs playing
00.26.50 Joe entering ghost town
00.27.30 Tumbleweeds blow through town
00.28.01 Close up of live tumbleweed
00.29.15 Joe enters busy saloon
00.29.46 Flies on a deck of cards, flies buzzing around
00.31.05 Men trying, and repeatedly failing, to mount their horses
00.33.04 Horses being mounted, rearing, and falling over
00.33.49 Man painting horse
00.34.16 Clips of cattle in Western films
00.34.55 Man branding longhorn steer, herd watches
00.35.40 The Rio Grande turkey, running in small flocks
00.37.10 Sun setting, turkeys roosting in trees
00.37.42 Horned lizard perched on rock
00.38.39 Horned lizard shooting blood from its eye
00.39.32 Prairie owl emerging out of hole, running across desert, attacking prairie dog
00.41.20 Clip from The Searchers
00.41.30 Buffalo
00.42.08 Overhead shot of buffalo running away from camera
00.43.02 Wolves
00.43.27 Grizzly bear
00.43.56 Armadillo
00.44.09 Prairie chickens fighting each other
00.44.49 Pronghorns in the prairie
00.46.15 Joe catching trout with his bare hands
00.46.53 Cavalrymen fording a river
00.48.00 Overhead shots of the Colorado river
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