Deer Camp 1978 - Part 1 - Shannon County Film Digitization Project

Deer season was an important event in Shannon County. The schools let out, many businesses closed, and a large portion of the population went hunting. In 1978, deer season lasted from November 18 through November 26 and provided the backdrop for much of the filming that took place in the Fall. Camera rolls 208 and 209 were filmed at a deer camp on the banks of the Jacks Fork River. The camp had been organized by Shannon Ennis, Superintendent of Schools in Eminence. Included in the camping party were several high school students, a few teachers, and at least one member of the school board. The camp provided a relaxed setting for discussing improvements in education, the scarcity of jobs, student expectations, some of the economic realities of living in an isolated rural area, and their hopes for the future. Filming took place at lunchtime when the campers got back from the morning's hunt. Lunch that day was squirrel. Shannon Ennis is the husband of Dorothy Ennis who is featured in camera rolls 348-351. Footage shot on November 20, 1978, 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.
For more information on the Shannon County Film Digitization Project: purl.missouristate.edu/library...

[@lovebug5439]

I was 17 years old and loved to go out hunting with my Dad and brothers. I wish I could close my eyes and wake up on that deer stand Nov. 1978 as if all of this was a bad dream. 🦌

[@herbertbrewer4175]

I would give everything I own to go back to 1978. I was 11 years old and that river the Jack's fork was a special place for me and still is a favorite place for me.

[@robwebber9267]

I love the old movies of deer camp's. So simple and so bliss. Thanks for sharing.

[@zacharyrowe8667]

Oh man I would do just about anything to go back to a time like that.

[@bryanplott2716]

Weird I didn't see one cellphone and everyone was still having fun

[@JamesJohnson-ye5pi]

And this is how I grew up day by day I miss those days !

[@crawwwfishh3284]

Wonderful times.

[@marshmellow3110]

Born in 78 and at my deer camp right now. On the Buffalo river, though. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@jerrymills4203]

Cool video

[@michaeldouglas1243]

Man send me back please!!

[@71rcode72]

Eating squirrel at deer camp. Wild. Now we eat last year's dear at this year's deer camp.

[@andylewis7982]

Thats right no salt shaker at deer camp. Pour it straight from the can.

[@missouribankfishing]

❤

[@bhoran1152]

👍

[@crawwwfishh3284]

The channel got rid of these great old videos. Must be racist.

[@bryanmartin2271]

I was raised in Shannon County mo out on Rocky Creek and what's going to happen is a couple good ol boys are going way up the holler and turn lose bout 4 or 5 fox hounds the like to run deer better and some them guys can make a kill and it doesn't matter what as long as its deer meat

[@thomasgardner5872]

Simpler times

[@charlesross1682]

these were the last of the great years of hunting before it went hi tec pro monster buck g2s genetic mod. of deer big commercial nausea we have to day.

[@richardfiedler2201]

SO SAD !!!! The family tradition of hunting is dying !!!! Most of the younger generation don't anything to do with it. The whole purpose of a hunting trip is not just harvesting an animal