Cattle Ranch

Cattle Ranch

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

May 1, 1961

Runtime

0h 20m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Cattle Ranch

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Guy L. Coté

Description

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.