Black Powder: A Hunting Heritage
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Educational film promoting land and population management with the practice of regulated hunting. Men load and clean guns, shoot at firing ranges, and hunt fowl in fields. Some shots of deer, buffalo, fowl, and the Wisconsin Licensed Game Farm.
Credits
Jack Behrend (director); Jack Behrend (producer); Chris Burritt (cinematographer); Rick Coken (sound); Gordon Weisenborn Productions Inc. (editor); Stan Klefstaad (narrator)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1980
Cfa collection: Jack Behrend Collection
Sponsor: Klefstaad Engineering
Subjects: Hunting
Places: North America > United States > Wisconsin
Language: English
Shot log: Most shots are still or handheld following action. CU of details, shooting, cleaning rifles, etc.; 00:00 - opening credits over footage of row boat POV with hunting rifle on board rowing down river, narrator discusses deer starving from overpopulation, no animal dies of old age; 00:52 - handheld MLS buffalo walking in woods, herd of deer running through woods; 01:14 - LS PANNING forest across body of water; 01:28 - Var shots MLS hunters walking through grassy fields, edge of forest with hunting dog, sign ”Wisconsin Licensed Game Farm”; 02:14 - Var shots instructor observes as man loads hunting rifle; 04:48 - Var shots men shooting clay pigeons, instructor gives advice; 06:23 - dog POV running through field, MLS, MS men shooting pheasants and duck in field, dog retrieves kill, birds taking off in flight; 10:35 - CU fire, Var MS men interior cabin, cleaning guns, discussing gun history; 15:13 - Var LS fog rising in field; 15:53 - ZOOM IN Var shots man walking in field, LA canopy, discussing decline in population of natural predators, history and ethics of deer/land management practice; 18:36-19:37 - MLS buffalo, herds of deer, white deer, man walking in field with rifle
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 710 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3415; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3413; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3414
Cfa collection: Jack Behrend Collection
Sponsor: Klefstaad Engineering
Subjects: Hunting
Places: North America > United States > Wisconsin
Language: English
Shot log: Most shots are still or handheld following action. CU of details, shooting, cleaning rifles, etc.; 00:00 - opening credits over footage of row boat POV with hunting rifle on board rowing down river, narrator discusses deer starving from overpopulation, no animal dies of old age; 00:52 - handheld MLS buffalo walking in woods, herd of deer running through woods; 01:14 - LS PANNING forest across body of water; 01:28 - Var shots MLS hunters walking through grassy fields, edge of forest with hunting dog, sign ”Wisconsin Licensed Game Farm”; 02:14 - Var shots instructor observes as man loads hunting rifle; 04:48 - Var shots men shooting clay pigeons, instructor gives advice; 06:23 - dog POV running through field, MLS, MS men shooting pheasants and duck in field, dog retrieves kill, birds taking off in flight; 10:35 - CU fire, Var MS men interior cabin, cleaning guns, discussing gun history; 15:13 - Var LS fog rising in field; 15:53 - ZOOM IN Var shots man walking in field, LA canopy, discussing decline in population of natural predators, history and ethics of deer/land management practice; 18:36-19:37 - MLS buffalo, herds of deer, white deer, man walking in field with rifle
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 710 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3415; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3413; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3414
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:05