Silent footage of operations at the Operation Santa Claus reindeer ranch near Redmond, Oregon. The film includes scenes of reindeer being fed and tended at the ranch, often in Santa-themed pens; being attached to a sleigh and participating in holiday parades and petting zoos; running in pens and rubbing their antlers against tree branches; and being transported by truck, trailer and airplane. Founded by John Zumstein in the early 1950s, the reindeer ranch closed in 2015.
Digitized from a film original held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV120:134), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
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