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Sand Creek, CO; mid-afternoon 05:00:34:-........wide LS of a lonely plain on a partly cloudy afternoon; bereft trees, dry grass; bleak and flat. 05:-2:01:-........ tight LS area where creek used to be; barren trees along dry creekbed 05:04:51:-........wide LS of distant dead trees on barren plain, pan L to more of same on a slight hill 05:06:52:-........tight LS of barren, many branched tree growing sideways on a plain 05:07:38:-........tight LS of wooded area, pan R to adjacent hill 05:08:34:-........tight LS of single tree in ravine as light sets over the ridge/horizon 05:09:25:-........subjective running shot in ravine, camera falls to ground 05:10:40:-........low angle LS of wooded area on plain 05:11:18:-........tight LS of lonely, barren tree on hill (excellent shot) 05:12:02:-........wide LS of several trees @ base of hill, pan R to open field and a few trees 05:13:34:-........tight LS of tree branches and sky, tilt D to field and ravine 05:15:52:-........wide LS of horizon, late afternoon/early evening; 2 lonely trees on screen L in near BG; 05:16:31:-........wide LS of trees and plain 05:17:23:-........wide travelling LS, falls to ground 05:18:23:-........wide LS of sun setting over a vast plain 05:19:23:-........wide landscape LS of plain 05:22:05:-........LS of blue sky, tilt D to wide LS of wooded area in ravine 05:22:41:-........wide LS of plain, 3 trees in near BG, pan L to slight hill, pan R to more trees 05:27:28:-........wide LS of sun setting over horizon; land masses are silouetted; fiery red, orange & yellow sky.
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Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma; 01:00:41:-..........wide LS of grasslands surrounding Wichita Mountains on a late, sunny day 01:01:20:-..........wide LS of blue sky, tilt D to wide LS of grasslands (in FG) and mountains (BG), clouds overhead 01:04:31:-..........wide LS of sunset; land masses are silouetted and clouds block sun 01:05:38:-..........interview w/ Vince Tahmahkera, an older man of direct Comache decent: tight CU of him as he discusses the history of the Comanches, where the tribe's name comes from, the importance and the use of the buffalo, what happened when the Comanches tamed wild horses, what happened when the white man killed off the buffalo and why they did so, Quanah Parker, peyote, Indian religion, Indian spirituality, the surrender of the Comanches at Ft. Sill, the importance of horses within Comanche heritage, culture and history. 01:27:59:-..........interview with Anna Mahtua Tahmahkera, wife of Vince and also full-blooded Comanche: tight CU of her as she discusses the missionairies, the influx of Christianity upon the Comanches, life on the plains before the white man, and the leadership of Quanah Parker.
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Oklahoma.... Quanah Parker house/museum.... men on horseback 04:00:30:-..........MS of stove, interior of Quanah Parker house 04:01:21:-..........MS of doorway, a stove, and a bench, interior of QP house 04:02:36:-..........reverse angle, MS... chest, table, chair, window, and coffee pot on stove 04:04:01:-..........tight LS meeting room inside QP house; a long table w/ several chairs in which 4 wax Indians sit 04:04:30:-..........MS of a bedroom... a dresser w/ mirror, pan R to window, bed, furniture 04:05:30:-..........MS, int. bedroom... 2 dressers, lamp, mirrors, pan R to window and bed 04:06:52:-..........MS, int. bedroom... bed w/ unique thin wood frame, pan R to doorway 04:08:30:-..........Powwow inside a school gymnasium.... drum circle of several men and one drum... several women, young and old, stand behind them; the women are in traditional Comanche clothing; the women dance in place. 04:14:45:-..........tight LS EXT QP house: white 2 tiered house w/ railed porch-walkways; orange-light brown roof 04:17:45:-..........ECU large hand drum being beaten, tilt U to man's mouth singing song in both Navajo and English. 04:20:31:-..........LS of 2 men in traditional Comanche clothing (including full feather headresses) on horseback; they ride into a high grass field... shot several more times as the men ride at various speeds and angles
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05:00:28:-..........tight LS of 2 male Indians in traditional Comanche clothing (including full feather headresses) on horseback... they ride through a wooded area and a high grass plain... they ride to a creek and dismount... they walk for a bit around the water, remount, and ride back to starting point. 05:03:51:-..........tight LS of 2 aforementioned men riding from behind tree coverage and past the creek 05:06:05:-..........tight LS of 2 men racing past water and into a small field then back to st pt 05:07:22:-..........tight LS man riding from behind a bush, gallops around same area, returns to starting point 05:09:20:-..........tight LS of man riding through a path and into a smal field, turns around, heads towards camera 05:12:32:-..........MS of both men riding slowly past camera on the path 05:12:48:-..........MS of man mounting horse on path, rides past camera & into bushes 05:14:58:-..........tight LS men walking along path (no horses); they talk, walk past camera, camera follows 05:16:47:-..........gorgeous wide LS's of sunset: silouetted land mass, bright red-orange sky. 05:17:55:-..........ELS of sunset, sky is tinted by purple and yellow.. still excellent
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Texas panhandle, Red River, Pease River, Palo Duro Canyon 13:00:30 Quanah trainstation: white, Spanish style building with red roofs 13:02:01 CU sign on trainstation saying "Quanah Route" 13:03:25 pan down from sky to building 13:03:38 very flat swampy landscape, Red River 13:04:51 aerial view of same landscape, Red River, several viewpoints, very red earth 13:08:40 Pease River, trees in foreground, foresty swampy landscape 13:12:32 pan across ground of this landscape as cameraman is walking through 13:14:54 guy standing next to monument for Pease River Battlefield 13:15:04 sign without guy 13:16:27 Texas Prairie Land, red earth, WS, Comanche Land 13:18:03 shot of sky, pan down to prairie land 13:18:58 Copperbreaks (?) State Park in the Texas Panhandle, red earth, small bushes, several shots 13:20:45 WS of dark green small trees and mesa-like plain in background 13:21:53 pan along sparsely tree-covered ridge in front of sky 13:23:25 Lake Copperbreaks 13:24:33 Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo, several views, mainly horizontal and vertical pans, ridges, mesas, red-yellow-purple rocks 13:31:15 end
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Texas panhandle, Palo Duro Canyon, Adobe walls battlefield 14:00:35 Palo Duro Canyon, nice pans and WS 14:01:25 slightly hilly landscape with prairie grass, then just flat, dry plains 14:03:54 mesa 14:04:26 more endless, boring steppe, then mesas 14:05:22 Adobe Walls Battlefield Site: dry yellow ground, blue blue sky 14:07:02 memorial to Indians who died in the battle 14:07:59 CU Indian head on memorial 14:08:52 pan across ground, prairie grass, area of Adobe Walls Site, distant mesa 14:10:30 nice scenic shot of tree and tall grass swaying in the wind 14:11:49 New Mexico: Gorgeous shot of prairie land, mesa in background, evening sky with golden clouds 14:12:27 beautiful, romantic shots of sky at sunset, deep orange, cloud formations, silhuettes of mesas... 14:14:02 back to prairie WS 14:14:36 end
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Virgil, Crazy Horse 16:00:31 WS plain, tree in foreground 16:01:44 CU of Native American Virgil 16:02:00 Interview begins, Virgil talks about Crazy Horse, Virgil admires him, talks about Crazy Horse's fame, that his grandfather used to ride with him, Crazy Horse was very quiet and reserved, brave and courageous. At young age, CH had vision in dream, received his feathers. V explains traditional Native American meanings of stones and feathers. Elaborates on importance of the Black Hills (=center of universe, says that quantumphysics measured the sacredness of the Balck Hills). On CH's vision: you see both physical and metaphysical world and what is sacred. V ends interview rather abruptly, he seems aggravated and irritated. 16:07:37 landscape shot, pan across prairie, several takes 16:09:54 section ends BREAK IN TBC 17:00:30 beautiful landscape, very intense, bright light between thick layer of black clouds and hills, steppe, tree 17:01:45 steppe with mountain range in background, cloudy sky, looks like rain 17:02:15 interview with an elderly Native American woman about her tribe, the Chiricahua Apaches (in New Mexico and Arizona) before they went into reservations, she is sad and has a hard time talking about her tribe's destiny, talks very slowly, talks about the hard life Native Americans are leading, her great-grandfather was Chief Victorio, talks about how Native Americans were killed off. At 17:13:20 Interviewer asks her about Geronimo (medicine man), she refuses to give much information regarding his remedies and rituals because it is the tribe's secret. Her stories about her tribe's surrender are very disjointed.
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Chiricahua Mountains at dawn; traditional homeland of Chiricahua Apaches, Geronimo's people 22:00:31 Chiricahua Mountains: bushes in FG, mountain range in BG; closer shot of mountains & foothills 22:02:32 canyon in Alomoso River area, framed by two steep hills 22:06:00 different view of canyon, CUs of rocks, grass, cactus 22:11:38 beautiful sunset: WS mountain range; orange & turquoise sky, silhouettes of mountains, grey clouds 22:15:43 more Chiricahua Mountains, sun setting 22:17:02 hill covered with little bushes and some snow 22:17:53 nice WS of flat winter landscape at sunset, fog between mountains 22:19:51 nice CU of grass in front of sunset 22:21:02 prairie grass, pan up to mountain range in background 22:21:29 huge evening clouds close to the ground 22:23:21 rock formation in Chiricahua national monument 22:24:40 top of Chiricahua Mountains, mountains, grass, trees, some snow 22:26:20 MS of bushes and grass in snow 22:27:44 very cool shot looking down from mountain tops onto fog, like from an airplane 22:30:32 small rock formations
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Chiricahua Mountains, some snow, rock formations, trees 23:13:14 cemetery with shots of individual tombstones 23:15:33 camp, straw hut, a fort 23:21:34 Inside the fort, looking out, nice shot, huge smooth rocks 23:27:59 old barracks of the fort
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Arizona 01:01:10 sunset
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 02:01:30 petroglyphs - horses 02:06:30 cliff dwellings 02:11:30 horses 02:13:40 cliff dwelling 02:23:14 fortress rock 02:25:50 petroglyphs - circles 02:27:00 peach trees
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 03:01:25 horse 03:02:20 dead horse 03:06:00 cliff dwelling 03:10:00 cloudy sunset
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 04:00:30 sunrise 04:14:00 horses 04:26:00 horses 04:28:30 horses
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 05:00:30 horses 05:08:24 cactus 05:09:21 horses
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 06:04:30 cliff dwelling 06:12:20 petroglyphs 06:17:25 canyon WS 06:26:18 sunset (clear)
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Arizona - Chuska Mountains 08:00:30 sunrise 08:12:05 mountains
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly: snowy mountains, Monument Valley, NM
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New Mexico; Monument Valley 10:14:27 herd of sheep or goats
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New Mexico - Monument Valley; scenic
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 12:00:30 Old hogan 12:02:15 rug weaver 12:13:26 sheep canyon 12:22:45 scenery 12:25:50 petroglyphs
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 13:12:00 scenic 13:15:00 hogan 13:15:29 sun prayer 13:17:20 woman long walk
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 14:00:30 sunrise 14:02:05 Albequerque Mountains
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New Mexico 16:00:30 Bosque Redundo land 16:11:30 river shots 16:18:40 redundo land 16:25:20 sunset on plains
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Navajo Reenactments (letterboxed?) 01:00:09:- MS of a Navajo man sitting on dry grass and watching another Navajo make a sand mandala. 01:00:57:- MS of the other man drawing the sand mandala. 01:01:30:- CU of his hand as he draws a man and a thunderbird. Cut to more MS's. 01:02:55:- CU of dry colored pigments on a piece of bark fashioned into a palette. More MS's & CU's of man drawing. 01:07:09:- great MS's and CU's of a small cornfield (good angle, nice DOF). 01:13:54:- END OF TAPE