Cattle Ranch

1961

20 min Documentary 10.0 7 likes

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.

Director:

Guy L. Coté

Writers:

Guy L. Coté, Guy Glover, Jacques Godbout

Awards:

1 nomination

Production:

N/A

Country:

Canada

Cast