Athletes running on road in Boston Marathon, crowd cheering runners around the road. Eino Oksanen, a Finnish Marathon runner, dominates the field of 181 entrants to win the 26-mile run. Views of runners running on roads.
Interior of a house, woman hand over a newspaper to her husband, he sits on a chair as the daughter turns dial on the console radio when the father of the girl asks her to turn the radio volume down. Father comes out of house and dumps garbage in a refuse can. Woman walks outside a supermarket, and then enters, housewife picks vegetables, points at a meat counter, and butcher shows her a piece of meat. Man takes bills from the drawer, walks to table, removes pay check from the wallet and studies it. Interior of an auto factory, two men talking, and another one join them. Three men walk through glass door marked, "Conference Room", the three men walk to a table where management representatives are seated and are introduced. All sit and start discussions. Two men get up, shake hands and walk out. View of union UAW CIO local 22 headquarters signs on building. Boy and girl children learning to dance together in a hall of the union building.
Interior of a house, husband and wife flip through "New Homes" magazine. Man hands his wife a couple of twenty dollar bills which she places in bank deposit book. Man and woman come up, walk to door. Scenes in suburban neighborhood. Housewife hangs wash on line in backyard as neighbor comes to fence. Woman walks over to neighbor and talks. Man mowing grass with push mower, struggles with old mower. Neighbor brings him his new mower. Man and woman greet neighbors, group around a table in the living room, enjoying a game of playing cards. Man and his husband enter election headquarters. A young girl seated in a house, girl sobs over school books as her mother tries to comfort her. Father walks in, takes off coat, sits and helps daughter with school work. Woman enters "Andres Jackson Intermediate School" entrance. She walks along corridor, enters empty class room, goes over to teacher's desk, shakes hands with teacher.
Film begins showing a passenger train moving through landscape, empty except for some cattle grazing. The setting is Texas, the United States, during World War 2. A young boy is on the train, wearing a a British school uniform (or possibly Norwegian school uniform), with short pants. He sits with his knees up, reading a book about the American West. Other books about the West are on his seat. Scenes from movies of the West that are in the boys mind are shown. They show vintage western film reenactments of stage coaches being defended; cowboys riding en masse; cowboys fighting Native American Indians; teams of horses pulling stage coaches; gun fights in various places; exterior of the "Last Chance Saloon"; and a cowboy riding a bucking horse in a saloon. As the train arrives at his destination, the boy readies and leaves the train. A man in a 10 gallon hat meets him and shakes his hand. Camera pans over landscape containing a single ranch or farm house. The boy is seen running all around the property. A tractor pulls a disc cultivator over some of the land. Now dressed in a western hat and long pants, his host takes him to meet one of the ranch hands who is working on an automobile. They walk by a man driving a tractor. Next they visit a man shoeing a horse. They wave at some men using hand tools to cultivate some crop. They walk past a tall windmill. Cattle are seen grazing in a field. After their exploration, the Host sits on a porch as the boy reads more information in a book. Another view of grazing cattle. A lone cowboy on a horse looks over the land.
Film begins showing a man riding a horse past some cattle grazing, in Tex during World War 2. A large windmill is turning nearby. A boy visiting from England, dressed in western clothes, waves to the rider as he enters an enclosure. The boy envisions the cowboy wearing a six gun. He rides alongside the cowboy as they go to inspect and repair barbed wire fencing. Closeups of barbed wire fence and cattle grazing in various areas. The cowboy, wearing a gun belt, uses the but of his pistol to hammer on a fence post. The two ride to an area labeled: "Check Plot No. 5." The cowboy climbs through barbed wire fence into the area where he takes and records measurements. Next, men are seen riding on harvesters, pulled by horses, cutting grasses. Another rides a tractor pushing a pile of harvested grasses atop a screen through which it passes onto a larger pile. The young boy sits on his horse looking glum. Next, cowboys begin a roundup of cattle. A horse-drawn wagon passes by, filled with harvested grasses. The driver throws lots of it on the ground to provide fodder for cattle when snow prevents them from normal grazing.
At beginning, film shows wild horses being herded into a corral on a ranch and farm in Texas, during World War II. Cowboys select several horses for "breaking." A cowboy adjusts a saddle on a horse. He then goes to a fence where a visiting boy from England sits. He helps the boy to mount the horse. The boy rides out of the ranch enclosures with several cowboys. Cattle grazing on the sparse land. A cowboy watching over the herd. Cowboys setting up a camp with horse-drawn wagons and cooking supplies. They take food and coffee cooked over an open fire. Closeup of one sitting and eating from a metal plate. Others also eating their meals.
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