Ranch Album
Gail Steiger Films
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1h 4m
Nationally released as an hour-long PBS special, Ranch Album celebrates rough country ranching in Northern Arizona and shows real cowboy life. Season by season, the people of this film describe what they do and why they do it. In the process, they reveal a sense of something more important—a spirit and culture that have survived in the American west for a very long time.
The film was included in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/UCLA Film and Television Archives' survey of outstanding recent work in the documentary field.
Produced by Steiger Brothers and The Morris Foundation in 1987
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