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Remembering Ruby

Ruby, Arizona 1939 and 1993

Background image - Penstemon

The Mill - circa 1935 Montana Mine, Ruby, Arizona USA Courtesy: Leah Ellis

Remembering Ruby is a sixty minute video program featuring archival motion picture film and video interviews about every day life in an Arizona mining community of 2,000 residents that is now a "ghost" town of melting adobe walls, decaying buildings and a desert-like tailings pond.

Located near the Mexican border, Ruby, Arizona is featured in several guides to southwestern ghost towns. Ruby's history as a mining camp and town goes back to the 1800s and essentially ends in 1940 when the Montaņa Mine was closed. The mining machinery, worker's houses, general store, and most of the other buildings are gone, but the valley of this former town remains a beautiful setting, nestled at the foot of Montana Peak with two lakes and a variety of vegetation and animal life. The natural history of Ruby, Arizona was featured in the 1991 BBC and PBS Nature series television documentary The Ghosts of Ruby.

The program, Remembering Ruby, features 8mm film footage shot in Ruby before the town was abandoned in 1939 and video interviews with former Ruby residents, shot in Ruby on the day of the 1993 Ruby residents' reunion when the town briefly came to life. The 8mm film provides the only known live action images of Ruby's adults and children at work, school and play and the mine and mill in operation. Originally produced as a tribute to Ruby's former residents, the video shows the film at normal and slow speeds, permitting study of buildings and people.

Remembering Ruby: Ruby, Arizona -- 1939 & 1993

Available in DVD VHS (NTSC and PAL) $20.00 plus shipping
Program length: 60 minutes
Original guitar score composed and performed by David Holt
Copyright 1996 & 2001 Anubis Productions International
Distributed by: Anubis Productions International, PO Box 50859, Tucson, AZ 85703 USA.

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