Keene Reel 1, Wildfire, Trapping, Fishing, and Rattlesnakes
Wildfires
Los Padres National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Trapping
Fishing
Hides and skins
Rattlesnakes
Drowning victims
Camping
Black-and-white footage, some disturbing and graphic, of a wildfire and burned areas, trapping, hunting, fishing, rattlesnakes, skinning animals, camping, and a dead body of a child being pulled from water. There are 3 of the same film, with very minor differences.
Keene cooking in camp; Wildfire; Burned Murietta La Carpa Trail/Billiard Flats signs; Burned deer carcasses; Soot or oil in creek, water is black; Dead fish in mud; Mountain lion in trap, still alive; Horse being led down steep and very rocky terrain, sheer cliff; Live mountain lion in net on horseback; Keene fishing; Boat on ocean, sportfishing; Rattlesnake being caught and milked; Rattlesnake striking at booted foot; Gnarled tree; Keene skinning animal, possibly coyote; Unknown taxidermized animals in tree; Keene smoking pipe by car; Raccoon with collar climbing tree, dogs barking at it; Crowd watching swimmers pull dead body of child from water; Mountains and trees; Bear running away; Team of 6 horses hauling equipment; Cat killing squirrel; Camping scene with taxidermized mountain lion; Loose rattlesnake; Keene washing face in creek; Keene removing boots, pretending to sleep, releasing snake, and then hitting it with boot; Keene shooting mountain lion with bow and arrow; Two snakes put in box together to fight; Car driving up steep hill; Keene drinking out of a water bottle outside cabin, exterior of cabin covered in stretched animal hides; Still shot of photograph; Woman and two children exiting house to greet Keene at his car, Keene takes dead mountain lion from the trunk of the car and shows to family.
Unknown
Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this film has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Black and White Film
Home Movie
15 min., 56 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.1 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/w73z2xc4mqf2ejp/2021-1.1AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 1)</a>
2021-1.2 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfj6iq72442zx1x/2021-1.2AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 2)</a>
2021-1.3 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/prcnv0yam4mkide/2021-1.3AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 3)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
A Ford near The Foothills Hotel
Ojai--Buildings--Hotels--Foothill
Rivers
"A Ford near The Foothills Hotel, Nordhoff, Calif." captions this postcard showing two women on horseback in the middle of a river.
[Rieder, Publ., Los Angeles, Cal.; Made in Germany, 12003]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this image has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
10 x 15 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
21237 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)