DESCRIPTION:
Music by Christine Southworth.
Commissioned by National Film Preservation Foundation for "Treasures [from American Film Archives] V: The [American] West"

How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat (1917)
Production Company: Bray Studios Inc., for Paramount-Bray-Pictographs. Cast: Pedro León. Transfer Note: Copied at 20 frames per second from a 35mm print preserved by George Eastman House. New Music: Christine Southworth (score), Charles Whalen (guitar), Evan Ziporyn (whistling). Commentary: Donald W. Reeves. Running Time: 3 minutes.

Featured in Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938.

Courtesy National Film Archive
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