Fade in A Roll :00 Sky to empty arena pan

Dis. to B Roll :09 Equipment on stalls

Dis. to A Roll :18 People walkirg towards cam Dis. to B Roll Pull back fromboots

Bob mounts his horse in chute

Bob's Saddle -bronc ride

Bull riders get hurt

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SEGMENT A

FADE IN EFX ROLL: Crowd Noise, Arrivals

X-FADE FROM EFX ROLL to D SOUND FULL: Rodeo Praye r

PRAYER:

We ask that you be with us at this rodeo, and we · pray

that you wkll guide us in the arena of life. We don't

ask for special favors; we don't afk to draw an aU-day.

horse or to never break a barrier; nor do we ask for

lightweights nor to draw a steer that won't lay. Help

us, Lord, to live our lives insuch a manner that when

we make that last inevitable ride to the country up

there where the grass grows lush, green and stirrup-

high, that you, as our last judge, will tell us our entry

fees are payed. Amen

D SOUND CONT. FULL: "Okie from Muskogee / BRING IN EFX TRK. : Crowd Noise

X-FADE FROM D SOUND TO C SOUND FULL: Nat. Sound

BULL-RIDER:

He really jerks ya down, what we call a downdraft,

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Nighttime, Davisburg, Mich. Rodeo Bob misses his steer

Dis. to B Roll

Dis. to A Roll Night drive into gas

station

Bob standi at gas pumps

CU Bob at side of truck

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what we call try ta jerk ya down, drops Uat front end,

kicks , trys to pull you down on his head. It was a long

ways up in the air. Oh boy it scared me, I looked down

at that ground and I didn't know how high I was , till I

seen it.

C SOUND UNDER: Applause /D SOUND FULL: Adair

ADAm:

Bob Ink, rodeo cowboy, is 32 years old.

X-FADE FROM C SOUND (BG) TO EFX TRK (BG}-CarE exiting lot

He is an Ohio farmboy who grew up and into his cowboy

dreams. He has competed as a rodeo cowboy for half

his life. He has never worianational championship, nev

finished higher than 12th, in fact and never really expec

to.

D SOUND OUT: Adair /CHANGE EFX TRK TO: Traffic Noise-ADD EFX TRK WITH: Gas Station Sounds

BOB: F'-'Ll..:

If you wanna try to win and make like the top 15 in the

natimal organ~zation, you just have to travel those

miles. Its a tough life when you travel from 40 to

140,000 miles a year 0

M.- 410/ Seg.A

~low

Dis. to B Roll Travelling shot

Dis. to A Roll Ohio countryside Trav. shot

Dis. to B Roll

Dis. to A Roll Ink exits from t:ru<k

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6:18

6:38

6:50

Yage J.

C SOUND OUT /BRING EFX TRK UNDER: Lt. traffic & gas

FADE· OUT EFX TRK: Car radio/D SOUND IN FULL: "Hamblin Man"

D SOUND UNDER /C SOUND FULL: Ink V. 0.

You're going to 4 or 5 or 6 rodeos a week, you're con-

testing like every evening, and you're driving all night

long to make the one the next day, and when you get

there you rest, the next night you're up and you leave

there 11 or 12 o'clock at night and drive, it may be 50

or it may be a thousand to the next rodeo.

C SOUND OUT: Ink/D SOUND UP FULL: "Hamblin M:

Very Slow X-FADE FROM D SOUND TO EFX TRK: Outdoor Pres.

6:52 C SOUND FULL: Adair

ADAm:

Last season he won about $8,000 in priZe money, and

like all cowboys, what he earned

6 :57 BRING IN A SOUND UNDER

· he won in open competition ••• there are no contracts,

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Bob Ink Sync. Int.

Bob & Friends in C onv.

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guarantees, no minimum wages for the rodeo cowboy.

C SOUND CONT. FULL: Ink/ A SOUND OUT

BOB:

Ther's more original American values inthe sport of

rodeo than in anything else I know of. You're strictly

on your own and you pay all of your own expenses as

an individual and uh, you're completely on your own in

what you win, if you don't win anything at that pa:rti~ula :

rodeo, you get nothing, no pay whatsoever for appeari.Jl

before the public at that performance. So if you don't

draw good, of if you don't ride good, or make a good

run or whatever, you win absolutely nothing, so that

a lot depends on how much you try, you have yourself .

and uh, its very demanding.

D SOUND UNDER: Natl Sd./C SOUND CONT. FULL: In

Its the way it is, you either hack it or you don't.

7:41 C SOUND OUT: Ink/D SOUND FULL: Natl. Sd. Conv •

. C ONV. OUT CUE : "He kicked as good as a bull could

kick."

8:04 D SOUND UNDER: Conv. /C SOUND FULL: Adair

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Pay day sequence 8:22

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ADAffi:

For 17 years now Bob Ink has been, as cowboys say,

"gettin' downthe road"---travelling back and forth

a cross the face of A me rica •.• sometimes with his wife

Barbara and their two daughters ••• sometimes only witl

Rat and Barlow, his horses. Gettin down the road to U

next rodeo and,

BRING IN EFX TRK l:;INDER: Harmonica

perhaps , the next payday.

8:24 C SOUND OUT: Adair/D SOUND FULL: Natl. Sound

FADE TO BLACK 9:01 FADE OUT D SOUND

FADE m BUMPER 9:02

FADE TO BLACK 9:05

END SEGMENT A

M - -410/ I UlllPIKF cow ooy

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Fade in A Roll Early Ohio morning

Dis. to B Roll

Dis. to A Roll Pix of Ink house

Dis. to B Roll drive shot

Dis •. to A Roll gas station

Dis to B Roll Turnpike toll plaza

/ . :00 A SOUND FULL: Natl. Sound, Exto

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ADAm:

This pa- ticular mroning, Bob begins a weekend during

which he will drive fo~ nearly 17hours to compete in

3 rodeos in 3 states ••• a thousand mile weekend drive.

And soon you discover that it is not the 8 second ride

on a wild horse or bull that makes cowboys collapse or

gulp down amphetamines; it is this part of rodeo that w

ultimately make or break the cowboy and his horse.

C SOUND OUT: Adair/X-FADE FROM B SOUND BG '1 A SOUND (BG)

X-FADE FROM A SOUND TO EFX TRK, FULL: Movi car on roa

X-FADE FROM EFX TRK TO A SOUND UNDER/C SOUND FULL: A

Gettin down the road soon comes to mean "gettin' out <

the hole" because the logistics are simple : Before Bo

Ink ever sees the horse,

X-FADE FROM A SOUND UNDER TO B SOUND FULL C SOUND C ONT FULL

M - 410/Seg. B

Dis. to A Roll · -Stampede

Dis. to B Roll

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he has drawn to ride or the steer he has drawn to wrest

.. before the rodeo begins, he is in the hole. Gasolene

costs, restaurant meals, truck and livestock maintenan

and the rodeo entry fees---he must place in the top 4 ju

to make up his travelling costs • .

1 :06 C SOUND OUT: Adair

1:08 X-FADE FROM B SOUND TO D SOUND FULL· Horses

1:12 D SOUND UNDER/C SOUND FULL: Ink, V.O.

BOB:

You know every horse and every steer and every bull b:

number, so you know if they are really rank, or ifthey'

good to ride , if they're hard to ride.

1:20 C SOUND OUT/D SOUND FULL: Natl. Sound

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X-FADE FROM D SOUND FULL TO C SOUND: Natl. ~

C SOUND UNDER/D SOUND FULL: Ink, VO (~cho.:.lik,

. If you get really a rank one from then on IE 's on your

mind how you've got to ride and what you've go~ to do.

Course when it comes to get on there's just one thing i

your inind, doing the very best you possibly can with

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what you've got drawd, and tryin' to win sorre thin.

1:55 D SOUND OUT: Ink/C SOUND FULL : Very Fast

2 :02 START SLOW X-FADE FROM C SOUND FULL TO D · SOUND FULL: '.'okiE

Slow Dis. to A Roll 2 :04 Slo motion action

Dis. to B Roll 2 :25 Slo-Mo

Dis. to A Roll 2 :38 Slo-Mo Fast Dis. to B Roll 2:46 ON horses head (Slo ~Mo) Fast Dis. to A Roll 3 :02 Steer wrestling (Slo-Mo)

Bob & Friend at entry 3 :33 FADE D SOUND Our /C SOUND FULL : Natl. Sound board

/ 3:53 " C SOUND UNDER: Natl. Sd. /D SOUND FULL: Adair

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Bob & friend

Cowboys Preparing their equipment

ADAm:

It takes muscles and balance to ride wild horses---it

takes what cowboys call "try". But it takes smre thing

else, sone thing more than "try" to be a champion. TJ

champions in rodeo are different than this man. Tow:

enough times they must compete constantly; to compet1

constantly they must drive nearly 200,000 miles a yea

and to do that they must forget everything, except the

rodeo.

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4:19 D SOUND C ONTS. F ULL/C SOUND OUT

BOB:

You have to give completely of yourself to be successfu

and win any money inthe rodeo arena uh, I guess to

take' there's no excuseso

4:29 D SOUND OUT/C SOUND FULL: Natl. Sd.- Ink's ride

Bob Ink in the chute 4:43 C SOUND UNDER/D SOUND FULL: Adair

ADAm:

Bob Ink u; ed to compete in 4 events, but like other cov; ..

boys, as he gets older, he works fewer events. Today

he will enter only 2. His best is the saddle bronc ride

Bob Ink set to ride Saddle -bronc riding, it was a job before it was a sport

and it was a sport before there was a rodeo. Now 90

years after the first rodeo, this ••• is the classic rodec

event.

Bob's ride 5:07 D SOUND OUT: Adair /C SOUND FULL : Natl. Sound

5 :23 C EO UND Our /D SOUND FULL: Ink

BOB:

It'd be nice if everyone oould look into the future and

kno.v what's ah~ad but fur me I'm going to be a rodeo

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Bob in the chute for steer wrestling

5:35

contestant yet for awhile--probably its hard to tell 4 or

5 years and then probably

C SOUND UNDER: Natl. sound at rodeo

around 35, the fellas that have been in a rodeo a long

time tend to thin out; but there's still a lot of urn aroun

workin one or 2 events' maybe not going full time ' but

maybe goin to one or 2 a week, course it depends on th•

individual, but at 35 you start slowing down.

5 :50 D SOUND OUI' /C SOUND FULL: Natl. Sound

Calvin Greeley Sync. Intvw.

6:00 C SOUND CONTS. FULL: Calvin Synco

Well you hafta practice more, you !mow the older you

get you have to practice more. Oh do excercises and.

Well your reflex slow up you know, you don't have thet

reflexes you had when you're younger and these young

guys come on and theygot those fast reflexes, older gt

just fade away.

6:25 FADE C SOUND OUT

FADE TO BLACK 6:26

)FADE TO BUMPER 6:27

.. FADE TO BLACK 6:30 · . END SEGMENT B

Fade in A Roll

Dis. to B Roll

Dis. to A Roll

SEGMENT C

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The cowboy legend starts in 1867 I with the first cattl~:­

drives up the Chisholm Trail, from Abilene to Omaha./

By the turn of the century, the m wboy had already -· Fast _D_.is_._to_B_R_o_ll ______ . _:1_6 ___ b_e_c_om_e_a_n_a_na_c_h_r_o_n_is_m__.J, I and yet his .30 yea·rs .of hard

riding had created an American folk heroo He was, .

Dis. to A Rol 1 :27 according to legend, solitary, self-sufficient./ A man

woo yearned for the open spaces and the free, bucaneer·

ing life. Whether that legend was ever true is now Slow D.--is-.:-·:...--:-to-;--B_R,......ol_l-;--; ______ :3_6-=~~-...::..un~i..:.:.m-'p~o:....r_ta.:.:..n:-t/ today these men continue to live that legen -hold at midpoint-

:39 C SOUND OUT: Adair/D. SOUND CONT. FULL: Music

Thru Disolve :41

Dis. to A Roll :48 X-FADE FROM D SOUND FULL/A SOUND FULL FULl Parking lot

Adult cowboy card game :56 FADE A SOUND OUT /C SaJND FULL: Card Game

1:01 C SOUND UNDER/D SOUND FULL: Ink V .0.

BOB: .

Well the old time tradtional image is still there, that

cowboys are tough you know and they were part of the'

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Cowboy card game kid's game

Wistful child between fence rails

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part of the people that won the west which was true and

rodeo started in the west back in the early days of ranch-

ing which still goes on. But the tradition and everything

of the rodeo cowboy, hasn' t changed much, when you

pull into town the, all the kids come and see th~ rodeo thE

back, where everybody's, in the parking lot or whatever

and they want your atuogrpahs , and they wanna ride a

hourse and they wanna be a cowboy.

D SOUND OUT: Ink/C SOUND FULL: Card Game

C SQJND UNDER/D SOUND FULL: Adair

ADAm:

Since the first diin e novels, American boys have dreamE

of becoming cowboys---have dreamed of "The West"---

D_ts_· _;.•_t_o_B_R_o;_:l.:::...l ______ ·2_:3_6 ___ n_o:....:t_ne~r.....:e:..::ly!!...-.;.b_e_ca....;..us~e/ cowboys belonged to the West, but

Dis. to A Roll Silouette shot don't pump up

because the west symbolized a kind of primitive freedorr

2:41 D SOUND OOT: Adair /C SOUND FULL: Natl. Sound

2:48 C SOUND UNDER/D SOUND FULL: Adair

These cowboys still do belong to the West; but today,

is a west of dreams, not geography.

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c. u. clown face

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·4:26 C SOUND OUT: Adair/D SOUND CONTS. FULL: Ink

BOB:

Their values I suppose· are like anybody elses, other thar

the fact that there's none on welfare, and that's .one thing

they despise , is sorre body havin' to support. I imtgine

that's why they're cowboys remainto be in the rodeo busi

ness, is one of thoffim ajor reasons, bein' on their own,

if you mention welfare,. food stamps, or one of them

they just don't git it, cause they're gonna make it on thei

own, they're gonna prove to themselves and everybody

else that they can do it, no matter how tough a road it is

4:55 D SOUND CONTS FULL: Clown

5:16

CLOWN:

We're pretty independent people, some people say we're

lazy but we're not lazy at all its a lot of hard work reall:

But its the independence of it I believe if you just put it i

a nutshell. Its a good life like I told you today its all I

ever done so I probably couldn't quit am go to work for

anyone because I'm not used to that.

D SOUND OUT/ EFX TRK FULL (solitary hoof beats w_ith slo-mo sound of crowd)

6:19 EFX TRK OUT/ D SOUND FULL: Calvin Greeley

Yeah, be in' your own boss is a good fee lin'. Anytime a

person can work for hisself and make a livin', it's alot

. . better than workin' for another man ••• go when you wani

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fade in credits : fUH!))HRHX~ narrator producer prod. assist.

cine -editor t. d.- audio

coop slide MRA slide

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8:33 FADE OUT C SOUND

END SEGMENT C