Mules
Mules
Educational film about mules. Originally shot on film.
Mules
Sideview CU ears of mule twitching, black BG. MSs papier mache effigies of mules. MSs mules hanging heads from open barn doors. CU man reading issue of Mules newsletter. TLS two mules pulling cart through stream. MSs white kids riding mules up hills, into stream. TLS mule team pulling plow through field. CU mule reading copy of Mules. More shots working mules. Traveling MS burro bucking toward camera. MS mule rolling in dirt, mule standing in FG. MS white boy sitting atop mule. MSs kids petting, feeding mules at petting zoo. MSs bridled mules wearing coloful floral hats. MSs men hosing off, checking hooves, combing mules. TLS/MSs cowboys riding mules during rodeo; mules haul packs, loads (packmules); mule race; mules jump over obstacles. Opening credits.
Mules
MS two-day old mule standing awkwardly in field, female horse grazing beside her. MS male donkey. MS three young mules in pen, facing cam. MS young mule nursing from mother horse. MSs young mules & females horses in field, tails swatting, bodies twitching flies. Sideview LS stagecoach crossing plain, dusk. TLS mules pulling float during Mardi Gras parade, night. TLS/MSs U.S. Cavalry reenactors riding horses down slope. TLS white couple dressed in wealthy 19th cen clothing riding in horse-drawn carriage.
Mules
Archival B&W footage of man using mule labor, early 1900s: Nice low angle sideview TLS two mules pulling plow; TLSs mules plowing fields, African-American men working w/ mules; MSs plows breaking earth; MS white men shoeing mule; TLS mule pulling mining cart; LS/TLSs horses pulling thresher through wheat field (farming, agriculture); CU wheat in hopper.
Mules
Panning high angle LS Death Valley. TLS/MSs wood wagons parked in Death Valley. Paning LSs bleak Death Valley landscape. Archival still of borax wagon team. MSs bridled mules pulling wagon. MSs mules pulling wagon through mud. MSs oxen pulling wagon. MS mules tied to post in Old West town. Archival stills of military packanimals (government mule trains). CU mule hooves kicking up dust cloud. Archival stills of mules being used during World War II. Archival stills of mules in livestock market, late 1800s. Archival B&W shots of mules being used to plow cropfield. Archival stills of Guyton & Harrington Mule Company. Archival shots of farm tractor driving over ridge, through field; threshers harvest wheat.
Mules
TLS mule pulling woman wearing floppy white hat sitting in carriage. TLS/MSs white people recreationally riding mules through woods, streams, etc. Mule Days parade: Sideview MS West Point cadet riding mule; TLS "Mule Days Celebration, Memorial Day Weekend" banner; MS navy color guard carrying flags; MS Navy marching band; TLS people watching mule train in parade; MS burdened mules; MS mule w/ "Idaho Mule Assn" sign; MSs bridled mules on parade; MS terrier dog poking head from stagecoach; excellent MS Ronald McDonald riding mule in parade (talk about jackasses); MS woman on mule holding carrot on stick. Tilting MS trophy w/ mule statuette on top. MSs show mules. Slow motion TLSs mule races. TLSs mules in weight-pulling contest. TLS/MSs mules being used in lieu of horses during roping contest at rodeo. CUs shoes being horned onto mules (horseshoes, muleshoes). TLS/MSs mules running around rodeo pen, men trying to lasso the faster ones; MSs saddles, bridles, packs & various burdens being placed onto mules.
Mules
TLS town hall in Marshalltown, Iowa. MS "Mule Show" sign. TLS mules in pens at Central Iowa Fair. MSs mules being groomed, clipped, washed, brushed, etc. TLS/MSs people milling about stables with mules before show. MCU trophy w/ mule on top. MSs prize-winning mules & owners. MS American flag being raised up flagpole at ceremony. CUs plow breaking, tilling earth; MS horse team pulling plow. MSs mule teams plowing field, pulling sled. MS Farmer Bob reading "Mules" magazine. CUs mule-enthusiast magazines & newsletters inc "The Brayer" & "Mules & More."
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LSs mules carrying tourists along windy path at Grand Canyon. MS burdened packmules marching along street. MSs white people riding mules through woods, down steep inclines, through rivers, etc. TLS/MSs two white mules pulling trolley. TLSs mule pulling trolley through French Quarter, New Orleans. TLS two mules pulling wagon full of white kids by cornstalks (cornfield). MS mule jumping onto payload of truck. Slo-mo MSs mules leaping over barbed wire fence from standing position. Panning MS mule walking through grassy field. MS mule rolling in dirt. MSs young mules, some w/ horse-mothers. MS two mules eating from bale of hay. TLS/MSs bridled mules pulling wagons. CU eyes of mule. MSs young mules. MCU mule eating grass. MS mule carrying rider down river gulch. MS man pulling on reins of stubborn mule, trying to get him into river gulch. MS/TLSs hinny with mother donkey in field. TLS/MSs adult hinny & mule w/ handlers. MSs mules peeking from stable doors. TLSs mule riding color guard (American flags) riding past spectactor stands. MS white boy walking w/ mule. Nice sideview sidelit MS men holding U.S. flags, sitting on donkeys.
Mules
Hilarious MSs true countrified white adults & some children competing in mule braying contest-- essentially people making silly animal noises, trying to imitate a mule. Too funny, too strange, too much.