Archives West Finding Aid

Travelogue commissioned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council: San Rafael, Goblin Valley, Fremont River, Giles ghost town, Hanksville, Capitol Reef, Capitol Gorge, etc. 12 minutes.

Travelogue commissioned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council: Fremont, Thousand Lake Mountain, Cathedral Valley, Poison Spring Wash, Dirty Devil River, across Fins, Land of Standing Rocks, edge of Cataract Canyon. With Ward Roylance. 13 minutes.

"An Account of a Rapid Shooting Expedition Down the Yampa and Green from Lily Park, Colorado to Jensen, Utah" with Harris-Brennan River Expeditions. Two cataract boats and one rubber raft. Slow motion rapid sequences, probably Tepee Rapid. On-board rapid shots in Whirlpool Canyon. 10 minutes.

Travelogue commissioned by the San Juan County Tourist and Publicity Council: Four Corners, Hovenweep, Navajo Twins, Goosenecks of San Juan River, Mexican Hat, Monument Valley, Navajo Indians herding sheep, weaving, spinning, North Wash, Dirty Devil, Colorado, and White Canyon Bridges, Natural Bridges N.M., Halls Crossing Marina and Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge, Newspaper Rock, Canyonlands National Park, Needles District, Elephant Hill Road, Devil's Lane, Chesler Park, Angel Arch, Needles Overlook, Anticline Overlook, Grand View Point, Confluence Overlook, Dead Horse Point, Aerial Views of Angel Arch, Druid Arch, Anasazi ruins (?), Chesler Park, Confluence, Monument Canyon, Washerwoman Arch, Upheaval Dome, Woodenshoe Butte, Goosenecks, flowers, water skiing, golf in Monticello, Blue Mountains, Blue Mountain Ski Area. Narrated by Al Morton. 27 minutes.

Travelogue commissioned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council: "A Vacationist's View of Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyon." Grand Canyon North Rim: cowboys, wildlife, wildflowers, Grand Canyon Lodge, views of Canyon, Angel's Window, Inner Gorge, rapids, Zion National Park, Grat Arch overlook, self-guided tour, Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel, Court of the Patriarchs, Great White Throne, Narrows, Weeping Rock, Zion Lodge, swimming, horseback riding on West Rim Trail. Narrated by Al Morton. 13 minutes.

Travelogue commissioned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council: "A Vacationist's View of Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyon." Cedar Breaks National Monument, Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon National Park at dawn, chipmunks, ranger-guided nature walk, Commanche Trail, Navajo Trail, Temple of Osiris, Castle Canyon, Tower Bridge, "Queen Victoria," "Wall Street," Bryce Point, autumn aspens, sunset, campfire songs. Narrated by Al Morton. 13 minutes.

" Scenic Adventure in Southeastern Utah." Desert flowers, cactus, sego lilies, rattlesnake, cowboys and cattle, cliff dwellings, campfire dances, sunrise, Panguitch, Escalante, Hole-in-the-Rock Road, Hole-in-the-Rock, Glen Canyon and Colorado River, Hole-in-the-Rock monument, cowboy breakfast at slickrock country ranch, loading pack horses, slickrock and narrows canyons, Gregory Arch. Thanks to Burnett Hendrix of Cameron Tours, Panguitch, Utah. 25 minutes.

Edited river trip beginning in Green River, Wyoming: Green River, Expedition Island, launching boats, loading gear, Firehole Basin, Linwood, Minnie Crouse Rasmussen, petroglyphs, Flaming Gorge, Horseshoe Canyon, running rapids, view from rim, running Ashley Falls, campfire cooking, Browns Park, Shallow Canyon, Gates of Lodore, Winnie's Rapid, Illinois Girl boat, Disaster Falls, Harp Falls, Triplet Rapid, lining Hell's Half Mile on the right (Al Morton's boat only - it is labelled "FACL" (Fellow of the Amateur Cinema League). The two other boats ran the rapid), Gunnison Butte. Morton's editing breaks with reality here: Gunnison Butte is at the end of Gray Canyon, some 200 miles down river. The scene suddenly jumps from the end of Hell's Half Mile in Lodore Canyon to Gunnison Butte, and unexplainable anomaly.

"A Movie Record of a Boat Trip Down the Colorado River" with Harris-Brennan River Expeditions. This narrative treatment of a Colorado River trip won the Amateur Cinema League's award for the best film of 1947. The film begins with LeRoy M. Sessions, Ted Cannon and Karl A. Pannier watching the Days of '47 Parade in downtown Salt Lake City in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Mormon Pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley. After lamenting the lack of pioneer-era adventure in the modern day, the parade-goers encounter "veteran rivermen Don Harris and Jack Brennan" and agree to accompany them - and Al Morton - on a trip down the Colorado River: Unloading and launching boats below Moab Bridge, motorind down the Colorado, arches and slickrock walls, abandoned oil well, cavorting in the river, Spanish Bottoms and the Doll House, hike into Doll House, rapids in Cataract Canyon, camping, rapids, Glen Canyon, petroglyphs, square tower cliff dwelling, arrowheads, Hole-in-the-Rock, Forbidden Canyon, Rainbow Bridge, motoring downriver, end of trip. 37 minutes.

"A Movie Record of a Boat Trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado" with Harris-Brennan River Expeditions. This sequel to "Adventure on the Colorado" begins with a credits sequence displayed over scenes from North Rim of Grand Canyon. The trip begins: lower Glen Canyon, Lee's Ferry, launching boat, Don Harris, Jack Brennan, Al Morton and 4 unidentified passengers, on the river, under Navajo Bridge, Badger Creek Rapid, Soap Creek Rapid, driftwood in cliffs, Houserock Rapid, Vasey's Paradise, Bert Loper's boat (Buckfarm Canyon), Nankoweap ruins, mouth of Little Colorado River, Furnace Flats, Desert View Watchtower, Hance Rapid, Upper Granite Gorge, Sockdolager Rapid, scenes from boat in rapid, Kaibab Bridge, mule train on Bright Angel Trail, unidentified rapid (possibly Horn Creek), scenes from South Rim, Hermit Rapid, lunch and nap, unidentified rapids, Inner Gorge, Vulcan's Anvil, lava flows, Lava Falls, portaging and lining left side, sunset, sunrise, breakfast, Separation Canyon plaque, Lake Mead, end of trip, leading boats onto trailer, recap of trip, Hoover Dam. 43 minutes.

"A saga of boats and boaters that have helped to conquer the rivers of the West, featuring a power boat run through Desolation and Gray Canyons on the Green River". Sponsored by Evinrude motors. Grand Canyon scenes near El Vado de los Padres, Firehole Basin on the upper Green River, Grand Canyon scenes from South Rim, various river scenes, Navajo Bridge, Kaibab Bridge, Boulder Dam, John Wesley Powell monument, South Rim, Powell inscriptions, Music Temple, Bert Loper's boat, Kolb Studio, South Rim, Emery Kolb, Don Harris, Jack Brennan, Jack McKeller, Mike Hallacy, A.K. Reynolds, C.C. Lug Larsen, Wind River Rapids race, various boats - kayaks, canoes, oil drums, inner tubes, cataract boats - running rapids, Ouray, Green River Bridge, launching boats Donz, Jax and Adventurer, Evinrude and Johnson motors, Captain Bligh and Fred Spier, motoring downriver, Desolation Canyon, Jack Creek Rapid, rapids, bailing, Red Butte, rattlesnake, breakfast, Three Fords Rapid, upriver run of rapids, Gunnison Butte, details of Adventurer motor. Narrated by Al Morton. 32 minutes.