Summer in Wyoming is a silent, color home movie. The travelog-style film likely dates to the mid to late 1940s and takes the viewer around Wyoming. The film features footage beginning on the University of Wyoming Science Summer Camp campus before following a group of students and professors from the camp’s botany class through the rugged Wyoming wilderness. The film also features footage of Navajo Indians in the town of Cheyenne working on traditional jewelry, as well as shots from the famous Cheyenne Rodeo. While the film is silent, it does feature text cue cards that explain what the viewer is seeing.
Film opens, title page written in drawn outline of bucking horse (0:08). View of the Rockies from lookout point (0:16). Timber sign along highway that reads “University of Wyoming Science Summer Camp” (0:28). Various camp personnel walk out of cabin towards camera (0:40). Green contrasts deep blue of lake, patches of snow dot rocky landscape, camp botany class traverses “the gap” between the Laramie range and the Bighorn Mountains (0:55). Sheet of ice in flowing river, montage clips of snow patches along trail (1:12). Camera pans rocky trail, students from class try and traverse rocky landscape (1:51). Views of small lake, blue waters contrast gray stones (2:37). Students sit for lunch break amid rocks, take in views of snow and rock-lined lake (2:51). Students dance and joke around in front of camera (3:16). Close-up of hands of one of the students clutching a small snow-shoe rabbit (3:22). Botany class group unwind after long hike by fire pit, prepare for fish fry: Some students seen crouching under jackets to hide from rain while cleaning fish, male classmates tend to fire and fry fish in skillet (3:36). Classmates huddle together under tree while eating fish (4:07). Reflection of clouds, pine trees, sun in shallow pond; Other scenes of undisturbed nature i.e. wild daffodils growing from rocks (4:25). Three women perched on horses (5:21). Shot of backlit church with cross inside, purple and blue sunset seen in distance; Montage clips of changing sky from sunset to dusk (5:33). Shots from prairie town of Saratoga: Quiet street of downtown area with 1930s era vehicles parked in front of businesses (6:19). Vast, desolate flatlands; Cows graze along picturesque landscape; Horses feed on overgrown grass; White sheep feed on grass (6:37). Women featured earlier on hiking trip stand in front of entrance to The Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow, Wyoming (7:08). Zoomed out view of hotel’s facade from across the street (7:27). Vedauwoo granite outcroppings and hoodoos in southeastern Wyoming (8:13). Close-up facade of granite rocks (8:53). Friends help each other scramble up rock before posing for camera, continue traversing jagged rocky landscape (9:08). Navajo Indians making jewelry in Cheyenne, Wyoming – tourists stand around and observe as man and young woman at work (10:38). Text that reads Bill Carlisle, “Last of the Bandits” (11:02). Rancher/ cowboy wearing pink button up shirt and wide-brim hat walks toward camera on street decorated with many American Flags (11:09). Cheyenne Rodeo: Horses in a pen, ranchers observe competition while sitting horseback (11:12). Cheyenne Frontier Days Arena (11:29). Drivers in Willys MB jeeps perform stunts i.e. driving through ring of fire (11:53). Bull riding event (12:18). Calf roping event (12:49). Bronc riding event (13:06). Sun sets over mountainous landscape (14:58). Film ends (15:06).
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