The Reynolds Alberta Museum which specializes in engine driven transportation,
industry and agriculture has created a number if videodisc clips which are
presented in a variety of ways in this celebration of the car/truck/and
tractor.  One of the cutest is a five part series which uses archival footage
taken from a mini-feature promo for McCormick Farm Machinery.  Anyone who has
seen some of these old promo 'Movies' will know that they tended to have a
plot line, a love interest and a climax.
 
This silent pot boiler was converted into a 5 part serial called "In Golden
Fields" and is played on 5 different machines through the farm exhibit.  It is
a scream and even the young children love it.  The old folks are entranced.
 
Reynolds Alberta Museum is located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada and is a
part of a network of Historic Sites and Provincial Museums that is rapidly
gaining an international reputation.
 
Another humorous museum situation (albeit, not exhibit) is to be found with
the explanatory description given by the interpreter in the main theatre of
the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump (a United Nations Historic Site).  The native
gentleman who often does the main theatre film introduction provides the
following description of how Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump got its name:
 
According to him, the Indians would gather at the buffalo jump to collect meat
for the winter.  They would pitch their tipis in the area and one brave used
to like to slip out and participate in various dalliances.  When returning
early one morning, his wife, who had secreted a club under her head robe
brought it down upon her husbands head thereby naming the site.
 
The actual story relates the sorry end of a young man who hid under the
overhang of the jump cliff to watch the buffalo fall in front of him.  The
jump was so productive, that the pile of dying buffalo crushed him into the
hillside and smashed his  head in.
 
I suppose neither story is particularly appealing, but the interpreter uses
his to tell the "white man" in the audience of the temper of native
women--including his wife.