1983-1984NATURE
Nature and landscape shots. Some of the only marshland left in California belongs to the Creighton Ranch Preserve in the San Joaquin valley of California, valuable land and the largest remaining freshwater marshland in CA (1980's). This film informs about how the flow of water is controlled whereas it's used for farmland but at the same time feeds the marshes, plants and wildlife.
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| 01:00:02 2.68 |
Countdown
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| 01:00:12 12.55 |
Beautiful, briiliant yellow and orange sunsrise over a horizon. Soft music and birds can be heard chirping.
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| 01:00:19 19.94 |
Sunrise over a lake, bright yellow sun, sun reflecting and glistening over the water - higher in the sky than previous shot. With narration.
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| 01:00:25 25.61 |
Beauty shot - cu golden stalks of wheat like sea grass, against a brilliant yellow bkgd. of exploding sunshine. Beauty shot.
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| 01:00:31 31.76 |
Bird perched on what looks like farm equipment, preening. WS ducks swimming peacefully in a lake.
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| 01:00:38 38.28 |
Another beauty shot of a rising sun with its golden reflection over a large tranquil lake.
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| 01:00:42 42.35 |
Two birds flying freely in cloudy skies
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| 01:00:44 44.87 |
Ws dusty hazy shot of brown landscape - could be farmland, electrical poles dot the landscape and a train is barely seen going by in the distance.
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| 01:00:47 47.17 |
Var shots of a large tractor moving along farmland headed toward camera, hazy shot becomes clear - tilling attachment dragging along, farmer from behind at the wheel
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| 01:01:05 65.43 |
Narrator talking into camera from a wheat or corn field out in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He state the area is the center of California's finest farmland, and the home of the Creighton Ranch.
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| 01:01:13 73.98 |
Cutaway to aerial images of the (former) Creighton Ranch Preserve in San Joaquin Valley, California. Slow pan along acres of fields, river, and some freshwater marsh still seen. Unseen, narrator explains how the land is so valuable that farms have taken over much of the preserves.
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| 01:01:32 92.52 |
Talking head male speaks to unseen interviewer about how the total acreage of freshwater marshland has dwindled greatly since 1850 from over a million acres down to 10-15,000 acres. The Creighton Ranch is the largest remaining freshwater marsh in CA.
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| 01:01:46 106.62 |
Pan out from a lone seagull in the sky to marshland, two ducks flying low over the water their wings flapping and feet barely touching the water.
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| 01:02:01 121 |
WS an open gate (possibly along a levee) with a large wheel situated over a body of water used to open and close to control spring runoff of the river.
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| 01:02:05 125.01 |
Various nature shots of the marshes - reflections of trees and brush in water, water moving and flowing, ws of marshes along the river
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| 01:02:27 147.02 |
Talking head male, a worker for the Conservancy, talking to unseen inerviewer about the control of the water and how in moving it to the farmland, it charges the marshes, plants and wildlife. A partnership.
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| 01:02:41 161.32 |
Pan out from CU of an oar in the water to a man on a rowboat in the lake or river
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| 01:02:59 179.37 |
Interior shots of an office - African American woman typing on an electric typewriter, man in bkgd looking through papers, other office workers in cubbys, girl sitting at desk at desk
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| 01:03:13 193.74 |
Talking head male speaking with unseen interviewer about how people fear the Nature Conservancy taking land from them even though the Conservancy's function is to protect it. People erroneously look at the Conservancy as a part of a government entity when in fact its just the opposite.
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| 01:03:29 209.58 |
Another talking head male talks to unseen interviewer and stresses that the Conservancy doesn't get any funding from the government but rather gets funding from individuals, corporations and foundations.
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| 01:03:35 215.86 |
Cutaway to var beauty shots, the sun shining brightly in the sky over the Creighton Ranch Preserve, blurry shot of grass with a clear single branch in the foreground, body of water at the Preserve with var marsh type grasses
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| 01:03:56 236.7 |
Creighton Ranch Preserve Manager, Robert Hansen, in a row boat paddling through the marsh. Shot of Hansen at sunset still in his boat as the sun goes down.
He is heard talking over the shots about how people from the area haven't seen the Preserve the way it is now (1980's) because the valley has been transformed in such a short period of time, and that's the reason the Conservancy came along - to protect it. |
| 01:04:17 257.89 |
Montage of beauty shots - Marsh land, a bird flying against a pinkish sky, wild flowers
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| 01:04:54 294.15 |
Film ends with a pan out from a bright orange sunset over the Creighton Ranch Preserve marsh land.
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| 01:05:12 312.35 |
End footage
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| 01:10:19 619.79 |
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