# 1950s HOME MOVIE OLD TUCSON ARIZONA MOVIE SET LITTLE BRITCHES RODEO RODEO PARADE 53664

This silent, color film is a home movie shot in the early 1950’s and shows views of the Old Tucson movie set, the Little Britches Rodeo, and the Tucson Rodeo Parade which is held every November. The film opens with beautiful desert imagery and large Saguaro cacti near Gate's Pass. The camera pans across the desert, across the mountains, and across a small village built as a movie set 1:00. A sign is shown. “Welcome to old Tucson. The Tucson Junior Chamber of Commerce has undertaken the preservation of this exact replica of Tucson in the 1860s. We hope you enjoy your visit. Any contribution you may care to make regardless of the amount will greatly assist in advancing this project. Donations here.” 1:01. Tourists investigate the movie site 1:23. The camera pans over the details of the movie set 1:40. Roadrunners play in the bush and fly away 1:55. A family gets out of their station wagon with plenty of food and provisions 2:15. Beautiful desert fauna and flowers are shown 2:30. The Little Britches Rodeo, which was founded in 1952 and allows children ages 5 to 18 to compete in a variety of different rodeo events, is shown underway 2:40. A boy rides a bucking bronco 2:47. A girl balances on the back of a horse while twirling a lasso 3:00. The men wrestle with a bucking bull in the ring 3:20. The finish line at the horse race is close 3:30. Cowgirls take their horses through the barrel races 3:50. A horse tosses its rider 4:00. A man rides a bucking bull 4:11. Women ride their…

- Kind: Home movie
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/53664-tuscon-rodeo-mos)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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