Missing footage

Hi. Over the years Dead River Rough Cut has gone through many incarnations. Once it was 90 minutes and then it was 30 minutes. Now it is 60 minutes.
Unfortunately, Richard and I have lost some important footage that just may be on an old VHS tape somewhere. Specifically, we're looking for a scene where Bob complains that the police will no longer allow him to live in his car. There is also a scene where Bob compares politicians in Washington to rats in his basement, and you know what Bob would do to Rats in his basement.
If by some chance you have this material or anything else you consider noteworthy, then please let me know. Thanks. Stu

Screening of Dead River Rough Cut

Screening of Dead River Rough Cut

Unity College
Dec. 1
11:00 A.M.
Filmmakers will do a Q & A after the screening

DEAD RIVER PINK

DEAD RIVER PINK
There can never be a sequel to Dead River Rough Cut, it just can’t be done. However, Richard and I are talking about a new movie, tentatively titled Dead River Pink.
We do know about Ann LaBastille, but unfortunately she died just a couple of months ago.
Certainly there are some “woodswomen” out there living a “rustic” life. They don’t exactly dislike men, but they want to make their own decisions and have discovered that it’s simply less hassle and more rewarding to live alone. This is not to say that they’re adverse to spending time with a guy, but they just don’t want to live with one.
Maybe she’s an artist/writer living in the forest.
Maybe she’s an herbalist, but at night she’s a street walker.
Maybe she works in a bank, but retreats to her shack in the woods.
Maybe she does every conceivable thing to avoid a “real” job.
Maybe she’s a migrant farm worker who follows the harvests.
Maybe she’s a Native American who has gone back to the “traditional life.”
Regardless, she has to be charismatic, dynamic, outspoken and fearless.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Dead River Rough Cut DVD

If you would like to receive a dvd of the movie before Christmas, then please go to our website.
Stu

Bob and Walt

During the making of Dead River Rough Cut, Bob was 49 years old and Walt was a few years older.

Identification

Can anyone identify the object hanging on the outside wall of Bob's home?
It is just to his left under the window.

Stove Pipe Oven

Walter Lane was always baking biscuits in a stove pipe oven that he constructed in his trapper's shack. The oven captured waste heat where the biscuits were placed to bake. The oven shown is quite a pricey affair, but Walt was able to fabricate something similar for just a few dollars.
There was no way he'd allow heat to escape up the chimney without putting it to good use first. Walter was the ultimate recycler.
Stu

Bob and Walt Inspire

Anyone out there who has been inspired by Bob and Walt to make big changes in their lifestyle? If yes, the filmmakers would be really interested in meeting you. Stu

Dedicated Website

Just to let everyone know, Dead River Rough Cut now has a dedicated website:
www.deadriverroughcut.com

Bob Pulls His Tooth

Watch the opening scene of Dead River Rough Cut and learn how to pull a tooth if you can't afford a dentist. Definitely not recommended for the faint of heart.

Bob Wagg

This photo was taken a few years before Bob's death

Bob Wagg and his wife Gerri

Way, way before the movie was made.

The Movie/The Book

The previous posts are still images from the award-winning documentary movie,
DEAD RIVER ROUGH CUT.
The movie is available from: http://oldfilm.org/. The book is available from:
http://breadhunter.com
A significant sequence from the movie and book was not included in these posts. The sequence documents the slaughter of a pig, and it's not a pretty site. Future posts may include the sequence.

There He Goes

Boy that is some good. Oh, there he goes. Walt

Living Alone

It’s not good for a man to live alone. You don’t notice it, and it grows so slowly on you. The longer you live alone the worse you get. You know I more or less pity an old bachelor that lived through life, never had a chick or child. When they get old, nobody cares whether they live or die. It’s kind of pathetic and it’s a sad story. Walt

No Fancy Casket

I don’t want no fancy casket when I die, cheapest one they got. That’s good enough. If fact if they just rolled you up in a piece of burlap you’d be just as well off. It don’t make no difference. You’re just gonna rot and that’s gonna be the end of it. Christ, they put you in a cement vault and you can’t replenish the ground that way. You stay in that vault and you ain’t done anybody any good. Bob

Great Mastermind

Great mastermind that created the universe. This old universe goes around, around and around. Year after year. Everything is fixed in its orbit. There’s no beginning and no end. You can’t conceive it, but our puny little brains can’t conceive much anyway. It’s uncanny when a man gets thinking of such things as that. That is one thing a man has no control over. Life, here today and gone tomorrow. I might drop dead before I get to the road, nobody knows. Walt

The Plan Of Nature

There is nothing wasted in the plan of nature. You take the forest here. These big trees grow up and fall down and die and make food for smaller trees. It’s a struggle for survival. The big trees crowd out the smaller trees. The strong survive and the weak die. That’s the plan of nature.
Now man has upset the balance where we keep the weak alive, the weak reproduce which give weaker species, and I think that’s one of our problems. If a man copied off the animals he would learn things. The only thing that will save the country is to get back to nature, and that’s all that can save the people. Walt

Geese

Well, they give you a wild feeling. You just want to take right off and fly away with them. If you could fly. Jesus Christ they just make you wilder than a hawk. You forget all about civilization. I always wanted to go up into northern Canada, right where those buggers go. There’s some country up there, somewhere. I know there is. You just let a flock of them fly over and you forget everything you’re doing. You just stand right there. There’s something about a bunch of geese honking. They set your blood all a tingling. Bob

Code Of The Woods

It’s an unwritten law, a code of the woods and there ain’t nothing in black and white about it but never leave a man’s camp unless you leave him enough wood to build a fire and keep him going a little while. You never break into a man’s camp, but if you’re stuck out you will go into it, but you leave it the way it was. You leave a note telling why you was in there. You know to keep from freezing to death or something like that. You never steal from a man in the woods and if you find a man in trouble you help him out and get him going the best you can. If he stuck a hundred dollar bill in your face, you’d never take it. Bob