Synopsis
High-quality, color film, in very good condition with a multitude of leisure-related stock shots (many with good sequences). On teaching people how to set up farm-based recreation (including camps, lakes; hunting; skiing; dude ranching) as a way of increasing income in rural communities. teaching hunting dogs to point; hunters shooting skeet; dogs in kennels; hunting and shooting pheasants; dogs pointed to birds; Carefully planned for hunting: "the strip planting pattern of sorghum and meadow grass was recommended by biologists of the conservation agencies as ideal habitat for game birds;" bird is flushed from cover to be knocked out of the sky by the hunter's rifle. Oncoming locomotive at night; disembarking train Winter sports: snowy parking lot; skiing; lodges, interiors and exteriors; ski lifts and rope pulls; tobogganing; group of half dozen simultaneously strapping on skates. Beautiful ice fishing. Ice sleds (fans hooked to outboard motor in contraption skim lake) ice sailing. Horseshoe tossing; tennis.
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- Running time
- 24 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · 'Pig slaughtering demonstration at 2!' · Spuzz · 2016-07-18
There are euphemeral movies, and then there's movies such as 'Rural Holidays' that come from nowhere and catch you offguard and rivet you throughout it's playtime. 'Rural Holidays' takes an idea and just goes with it, in this case it's farmland owners converting their land into recreational tourist spots! Now, I have no idea if this idea is being used today (it sounds like a good idea though!) but it sounds like, according this film, that this was the norm in the late 1950's (which I think this film was made). Farmers would turn over part of their land so people would camp, go swimming in the…