Fox Hunt - Part 5 - Shannon County Film Digitization Project

Camera roll 325 is one of seven rolls (321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327) that comprise a fox hunt sequence with Seaman Rayfield, Edward Piatt, and Edward's nephew, Eugene Piatt. While the fox hunt provides a setting for this series of rolls, most of the footage consists of conversations among the participants, and responses to questions asked by the filmmakers. The material covers a wide range of topics, often with humor, and often in the form of a story. In roll 325, they discuss game wardens, problems with hunters from the "bootheel" of Missouri and from St. Louis, wastefulness or hunting for sport versus hunting for necessity, bird hunting, squirrel hunting, deer hunting, raccoon hunting, fox hunting, selling dogs as well as giving them to people for free, and how their hunting dogs would sometimes stay out in the woods for months at a time before coming back to them. Footage shot on May 31, 1979, in Shannon County, Missouri.
Part of the raw footage recorded 1978-1979 for the 1981 documentary motion pictures "Shannon County: Home" and "Shannon County: Hearts of the Children." Located in Special Collections, Meyer Library, Missouri State University.
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