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Bronco Busters

Accession number: 
1946.0041
Alternate Titles: 
Bride et lasso
French version
Production Years: 
1946

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Length (minutes): 
10
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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"Calgary's famous stampede brought to the screen. Over the rolling hills of Alberta the colts and wild horses run free as the wind, until round-up time. Some of them end up at the Calgary Stampede, a bigger day than Christmas for ranchers and cowboys. The excitement of roping, broncobusting, bulldogging a steer, and chuck wagon racing, as well as the grace and speed of the wild horses of the foothills, are seen with a background of western music and song."

Bibliography: 

Calais Calvert, "We Use Films in Our Program," Film News (September-October 1947): 25.
"Alberta: IODE's [Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire] concern themselves with films for children, and with NFB theatrical series, of which a number during the past year dealt with western and Alberta topics, as Exercise Muskox (on Army manoeuvres in the North) and Bronco Busters (Calgary Rodeo)."

"Bronco Busters," 16mm Motion Picture Films - Canadian Travel Film Library (Chicago/New York, 1954): 4.
"With a background of western music and song, the film shows the grace and speed of the unbroken herds, the dust and clamour of the corral, and the thrill of the cowboy's red-letter event - the Calgary Stampede. At this ranch festival we watch the cowboys roping, bulldogging a steer, bronco-busting, and finally, taking part in the exciting chuck-wagon race."

Online database (National Film Board of Canada).
"Calgary's famous stampede brought to the screen. Over the rolling hills of Alberta the colts and wild horses run free as the wind--until round-up time. Some of them end up at the Calgary Stampede, a bigger day than Christmas for ranchers and cowboys. The excitement of roping, broncobusting, bulldogging a steer, and chuck wagon racing, as well as the grace and speed of the wild horses of the foothills, are seen with a background of western music and song."