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Joseph Desloge river running video collection, 1942-1958
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Desloge, Joseph, 1889-1971
- Title
- Joseph Desloge river running video collection
- Dates
- 1942-1958 (inclusive)19421958
- Quantity
- 23 16mm films, 2 8mm films and 7 VHS videocassettes
- Collection Number
- A0641
- Summary
- The Joseph Desloge river running video collection (1942-1958) consists almost entirely of footage of river trips on the Green and Colorado Rivers. Several films were shot at the Grand Canyon. The collection also contains movies of trips on other rivers and of the Desloge family's other vacations and home life. Joseph Desloge was a St. Louis industrialist and philanthropist who frequently vacationed on the rivers of the West and joined expeditions led by prominent river guides of the mid 20th century.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Joseph "Joe" Desloge (1889-1971) was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Lydia Davis and Firmin Vincent Desloge. A descendant of French immigrants, Joseph Desloge served in the French army in WWI and received the Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) from the French government for his valor at Vouziers. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1912 with a degree in electrical engineering and founded the Minerva Oil Company (miners of zinc and fluorspar), Killark Electric Manufacturing Company, Louisiana Manufacturing Company and Atlas Manufacturing Company. In 1926, he built an elegant mansion in Florissant, Missouri, which he named "Vouziers" after the Battle of Vouziers in Northern France.
A prominent philanthropist, naturalist, conservationist, and preservationist, Desloge worked to preserve and share natural landscapes in his home state by donating the land to create Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park in Reynold County, Missouri and Sunset Park in the city of Florissant. To serve the underprivileged, Desloge funded the construction of Firmin Desloge Hospital (now called St. Louis University Hospital) in 1934.
Desloge and his first wife, Anne Kennett Farrar, had four children. She died in 1934. He married Marie Saalfrank in 1953. With his wife, Marie, Joseph Desloge ran many rivers of the Southwest, including the Colorado, the Green, and the San Juan, with well-known outfitters like Norm Nevills, Kent Frost, Frank Reynolds, and the Sanderson Brothers. Joseph Desloge died in 1971.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Joseph Desloge river running video collection (1942-1958) consists almost entirely of original and composite print films and videocassettes of river trips on the Green and Colorado Rivers. Several films were shot at the Grand Canyon. The collection also contains movies of trips on other rivers and of the Desloge family's other vacations and home life.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
16mm and 8mm filmsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Reel | ||
1 | Grand Canyon 16mm film
With Otis "Dock" Marston.
|
1942 |
2-3 | Grand Canyon - Colorado River parts 1-2 16mm film |
1942-1948 |
4 | Grand Canyon 16mm film
This copy does not contain parts excerpted for composite print on 09/20/1954.
|
1950 |
5 | Grand Canyon riverways 16mm film |
1951 |
6-7 | Grand Canyon - Colorado River parts 1-2 16mm film
With Otis "Dock" Marston and others.
|
1951 |
8 | Four vacations 16mm film
Mexico City, Guadalajara (1951)
Green River, Hell's Half Mile (1953)
Wind River Mountains river trip with Erma and Christy (1954)
Green River (1955)
|
1951-1955 |
9 | Motor boating in Grand Canyon 16mm film
With Otis "Dock" Marston and others.
|
1952 |
10 | Green River and oil fields 16mm film
Joe Desloge, A.H., M.D. and Zoe Desloge.
|
1952 |
11 | Green River 16mm film
Joe Desloge, Marie Saalfrank and A.K. Reynolds.
|
1952 |
12 | Colorado River 8mm film
With Hugh Cutler, Otis "Dock" Marston and others.
|
1955 |
13 | Grand Canyon 16mm film |
1956 |
14 | Grand Canyon 16mm film
Composite print including boat upset, Otis "Dock" Marston, etc.
|
1958 |
15 | Unidentified film 16mm film |
undated |
16 | Colorado River, Green River, San Juan River 16mm film |
undated |
17 | Unidentified film 16mm film |
undated |
18 | Green River, Colorado River, San Juan River 16mm film
Four separate river trips are included on this film reel. Participants include Norman Nevills, Otis "Dock Marston," H.K., Loc Moore, Arthur, (M)Hilotte, Comptons.
|
undated |
19 | Hudson River 8mm film
Boat trip, Statue of Liberty, New York City skyline, etc.
|
undated |
20 | San Juan 16mm film |
undated |
21 | Green River 16mm film
With Norman Nevills, Anne Desloge, B.D., Zoe Desloge, Marie Saalfrank, Comptons, Arthur, Botty and John.
|
undated |
22-23 | Riverways of Rapidsmen parts 1-2 16mm film |
undated |
24 | Colorado River reel 2 16mm film
Helicopter, etc.
|
undated |
25 | Unidentified film 16mm film |
undated |
VHS videocassettesReturn to Top
These cassettes contain footage of river trips and occasional other home movies dubbed from 16mm or 8mm film. Scenes were filmed in the Grand Canyon unless otherwise noted.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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cassette | ||
1.1 | Otis Marston presents: Through the Grand Canyon by boat.
Color, sound
VHS videocassette
Otis Marston narrates:
Maps of river and Grand Canyon
Rapids, water, scenery
"Ross Wheeler" (boat)
Scenery, aerials of Hoover Dam
Norman Nevills in boat
Norman Nevills on shore
Norman Nevills demonstrating "face your danger" river running technique with model, diagram
Scenes of boats
Loading boats at Lees Ferry
Launch, with powerboat in background (unidentified boat)
Running rapids (not Badger Creek Rapid)
Hiking near Tanner Flats
Granaries at Nankoweap Canyon
Rapids
Norman Nevills giving signals while someone else runs rapid
Desert View Watchtower on south rim of Grand Canyon
Norman Nevills building signal fire
Camp, breakfast
Phanton Ranch, swimming in pool, loading boats at Bright Angel Creek
Lining Horn Creek Rapid
Running rapids in Middle Granite Gorge
Diamond Peak
End of trip, tow-out on Lake Mead
Hoover Dam
|
circa 1942 |
1.2 | San Francisco, Green River to Colorado River travelogue
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
San Francisco Bay, San Francisco street scenes including streetcars on turntables, streets
Woman at typewriter
Russell Henderson typing in Grand Canyon
Randall Henderson leaving note in can in cairn
Map of Green and Colorado Rivers
Aerials of mountains
Rapids in Gore Canyon, Colorado River
moving water
Flaming Gorge, Green River
Uinta Mountains
Upper Green River: Ashley Falls, Browns Park, Gates of Lodore, Hell's Half Mile, rapid, Echo Park, Highway 40 bridge at Jensen, Utah
Aerial of confluence of Green and Colorado
Rapids in Cataract Canyon (?)
Glen Canyon
Hole-in-the-Rock
Otis Marston
Mouth of San Juan River
Lees Ferry
Aerial of Vermillion Cliffs, Marble Canyon
Map of Grand Canyon region
View from rim of Grand Canyon
Marble Canyon
Stanton's Cave
Vasey's Paradise
View from south rim
Bridge at Cameron, Arizona, over Little Colorado River
Angel's Window, north rim of Grand Canyon
View from north rim into Unkar Delta area
Tanner Flats
Carbon Creek - Tanner Rapid
View into upper Granite Gorge, Bright Angel area
Phantom Ranch swimming pool
Inner Gorge
Scouting rapids
Lining Lava Falls - Norman Nevills, Garth Marston, others; Margaret Marston filming
Reloading below Lava falls, re-launching boats
Lining process in fast motion
Portaging boats in Canyon of Lodore (out of sequence)
Aerials of Grand Canyon
Debris from 1944 crash of US Army transport airplane on north rim of Grand Canyon
Diamond Peak
Power boats doing upruns
Lake Mead
Hoover Dam tour, riding aerial tramway
Power lines
The transition between videos 1.2 and 1.3 is unclear. They may not actually be separate films.
|
undated |
1.3 | Green River to Colorado River and Southern Utah region travelogue
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Map of Green - Colorado River region
Rapids
Nankoweap ruins
Marston twin girls with pottery
John Wesley Powell with boats
Powell party inscriptions at Music Temple, Glen Canyon
plaque at Separation Rapid
Stanton Expedition (?) photos
Galloway inscription, Elves Chasm
Emery Kolb with NPS park ranger
Clyde Eddy
Unidentified man
Unidentified woman
Lois Jotter
Bert Loper
Loper's boat
uUnidentified man
Hyde inscription
Skeleton at South Cave
Hiking in Glen Canyon with Norman Nevills
Old mining site in Glen Canyon
Wreck of Stanton (Hokasninni Mining Co.) dredge, after being set on fire
Norman Nevills clowns with old clothes from trunk found in Glen Canyon
Oil rig near Mexican Hat
Rapids
Cable car over San Juan River
Bridges: Moab, Utah, Navajo Bridge over Marble Canyon (aerial, including flying under bridge; from land, and from river, Kaibab Bridge, near Phantom Ranch
Bright Angel trail with mules
Cable car at Bass Camp
Natural bridges and arches: Wilson Arch, Angel's Window, Jug Handle Arch, Gregory Bridge, Delicate Arch, Druid Arch, Double-O Arch, Landscape Arch, Steven's Arch, Rainbow Bridge
Map of southeast Utah
Sorting canned good for river trip with Frank Wright
Cooking, serving meal on river
Washing dishes - Garth Marston
Fossils
Hiking, rock-hounding in badlands along river
Southern Utah scenery
Wildlife: lizard, scorpion, rattlesnake, deer swimming river, bighorn sheep, antelope, bison
Sliding on smooth slope on air mattress
Rapids
Boats
Rapids in Idaho, 1946 (out of sequence)
Pres Walker being washed out of boat in rapid in Idaho, 1946 (out of sequence)
Rapids, Grand Canyon: scouting, running bailing boats
Starting driftwood fires
Patticake
The transition between videos 1.3 and 1.4 is unclear. They may not actually be separate films.
|
undated |
1.4 | Grand Canyon river trip with Ed Hudson
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Ed Hudson
Running Bedrock Rapid
Hiking
Rapids
Water fights
Havasu
Windstorm with blowing sandbars
Clouds in Glen Canyon
Wind blowing spray off tops of waves
Glen Canyon rainstorm
Waterfalls off rim of canyon
Rainbow
Southern Utah scenery
Mexican Hat
Shiprock
Marston twin girls in front of Navajo Twins (rock formation), near Bluff, Utah
Monument Valley scenes
Grand Canyon scenery
Swimming in river
Sliding in mud
Havasu: swimming, diving, boarding boats in mouth of Havasu Creek
Little Colorado River: swimming, diving
Lava flows
Vulcan's Anvil
Playing in mud
Lava Falls
Rapids
Oarlocks on boats
Rapids
Rockfall
Scouting rapids: NDN, Otis Marston, Garth Marston
Swimming rapids in inner tubes, air mattresses, life jackets, without life jacket
Dubendorff rapid
Rapids from boats
Otis Marston rowing boat
Rapids from boat
Travertine Falls
Rapids from boat
Otis Marston rowing boat
Swirlies
Lower Grand Canyon
Garth Marston rowing
Lake Mead
Floatplane landing
"Hae Dae" (power launch) on Lake Mead
Towing out Nevills boats on Lake Mead
|
circa 1940s |
2.1 | Grand Canyon river trip with Ed Hudson
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Ed Hudson and other crew
Bureau of Reclamation camp, Marble Canyon: aerial tramway, boats from rim
Hiking
Scenery: travertine waterfall
Hiking to old mine, Tanner Flats
Rapids
South river of Grand Canyon views, near Unkar Delta, various rim scenery
Camp: washing dishes
Scenes around Hance Rapid
Helicopter circling over boats and river
Scenes from helicopter of boats in rapids
Esmerelda II (boat)
Helicopter
Boats in rapids
Abandonment of Esmerelda II
Helicopter rescue of passengers: landing, Margaret Marston boarding
Take-off of helicopter
"SOS" on beach
Second helicopter landing
Ed Hudson with beer
Scenes from helicopter
Second helicopter taking off
Scenes from helicopter
Wreck of first helicopter
Rescue of passengers by second helicopter
Second helicopter lands on south rim
Swimming in Havasu Creek
Lava Falls
Man with horse (Bundys at Whitmore Wash?)
Lake Mead
|
1950 |
2.2 | Desloge family home movies
Black and white, silent
VHS videocassette
Probably in Missouri:
Children on swings
Playing with dogs
Climbing trees
Swimming
Biking
|
undated |
2.3 | Grand Canyon river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Flying over Lees Ferry, Navajo Bridge, rapids in Marble Canyon
Aerial tramway cable spools
Aerials of Grand Canyon
Airplane landing at Marble Canyon airstrip
Power boats arriving at Lees Ferry on trailers
Unloading, launching boats
Putting one boat back on trailer for unknown reason
Boats in river
Water-skiing on river
Looking down on boats from Navajo Bridge
Boats in rapids: Badger, Soap Creek
F.M. Brown inscriptions below Soap Creek
North rim scene
Repairing propellor on ASweet Chariot" (boat)
Boats on river
Swimming in Little Colorado River
Camp
River and rapids
Repairing ASweet Chariot" again
Boats tied up on bank
Boats on river
Rapids
Landing, repairing unnamed blue boat
Rapids
Havasu
Boats on river
Lava Falls
People swimming rapids
Boats in rapids
Basalt formations below Lava Falls
Diamond Peak
Boats on river
Landing "June Bug" (boat)
Water skiing, lower Grand Canyon
Camp
Lake Mead
Views of crews and boats
Lake Mead
|
circa 1951 |
3.1 | Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Navajos weaving
Dust devils from car
Reynolds River Expeditions boats in rapids: Disaster Falls, Triplet Falls, Hell's Half Mile
Camp, chopping wood by cabin (where?)
Rapids
Loading boats
Unloading boats
Camp
Boats in rapids
Hatch River Expeditions pontoons in rapids
Lining Reynolds River Expeditions boats
Hatch pontoon stuck on rock
|
undated |
3.2 | Grand Canyon river trip
Color, silent, out of focus
VHS videocassette
Same trip as 2.3 filmed by a different person:
Boats in river
Water skiing behind boats
Boats in rapids
Men shaving
Mud
Boat on river
Swimming in Little Colorado River
Camping
Boats on river, entrance to Inner Gorge
Repairing propellors
VBoats in Hance Rapid
Mules with supplies
Riding mules
Phantom Ranch swimming pool
Loading boats
Boats in rapids, one broken down and under tow
Swimming Tapeats Creek
Granite Falls
Boats on river
Lake Mead
|
circa 1951 |
3.3 | Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
First scene badly over-exposed
Men at "Illinois Girl" (wrecked boat) at Winnie's Rapid
Boats running Disaster Falls
Camp: cooking, kitchen area, sleeping bags rolled out.
Scene shifts to Missouri:
Men drilling water well
1953 Chevrolet pickup truck
Family on porch
|
undated |
3.4 | Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Titles in the film are in quotes:
"Red Canyon"
Sheepherder along river
Camp: cooking
"Ashley Falls"
High water runs of Ashley Falls
"Red Creek Rapids"
Camp scenes in Hideout Flats?
"Lodore"
Triplet Falls
Boats in fast water
Buster Basin
Man swimming rapid
Loading boats
"Hell's Half Mile"
Lining boats through Hell's Half Mile
Rapids
Camp scenes
Echo Park
Passengers and crew: "Joe Desloge, Marie Saalfrank, Hugh Cutler, Marian Cutler, chief boatman A.K. Reynolds, boatmen Lug Larsen, Walt Furen"
Chipmunks in camp
Camp at mouth of Split Mountain Canyon
End of trip
|
undated |
3.5 | Down the Colorado River 365 miles from Lees Ferry to Boulder Dam through the Grand Canyon
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Titles in the film are in quotes:
Men on boat "Rattlesnake"
Men on boat "Bootoo"
Men on boat "Cactus"
Boats on river
"Badger Creek Rapid"
Boats in Badger Creek rapid
"Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead (,) 239 miles with a drop of 1945 feet"
Boats in rapid (out of focus)
"A Canyon Evening"
Camp and riverside scenes
"Looking over a rapid"
Scouting rapid from shore
Boats on river
Rapids filmed from boat
"Three aluminum boats"
Boats on river at speed
Travertine
"The Little Colorado River"
Swimming in Little Colorado River
"A pair of 15 hp motors"
Scenes of outboard motors and interiors of boats
Boat repairs
Boats in Lava Falls
"Horn Creek Rapid" (sic - actually looks like Granite Falls)
Boats in Hermit Rapid
Damaged boat on shore
Man with two-way radio
Looking at rapid from shore
Elves Chasm
Boats on riverbank
Deer Creek Falls
Boats on riverbank
Boats on river
"Lava Falls"
Boats running Lava Falls
Boats in rapids
Travertine Falls
"The last 111 miles of the 350 miles were on Lake Mead"
Boats at speed on Lake Mead
"Lake Mead and the last camp site"
Camp on Lake Mead with power launch
"Silt has filled the head of the lake"
Scenes on Lake Mead
Mud cracks
Otis Marston
Bill Belknap?
Frank Masland
Unidentified man
Joe Desloge
|
circa 1950s |
3.6 | Through the Grand Canyon by aluminum boat and outboard motor from Lee's Ferry, Arizona to Boulder City, Nevada on Lake Mead
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Possibly the same trip as 3.5
Titles in the film are in quotes:
"Cameras of: Ballard Atherton, Bill Beer, Hugh Cutler, Josh Eisaman, (Otis) Dock Marston, Arch (Frank) Masland"
Boats on river
Hand tracing route on map
Marble Canyon trading post
Navajo Bridge
Lees Ferry
"Lee's Ferry June 1"
Boats on shore
Working on boats
Launch
Otis Marston and ?
Willy Taylor
Working on boats
Garth Marston
Bill Beer
Unidentified man
Otis Marston
Unidentified man
Frank Masland
Unidentified man
Unidentified man/ Garth Marston
Bill Beer
Unidentified man
Otis Marston
"We're Off!"
Going up river into lower Glen Canyon
Under Navajo Bridge
"Badger Creek Rapid from rim"
Boats in rapid, landing below
"Soap Creek Rapid"
Boats in rapid, shot from boat
"242 Mile Rapid"
Boats in rapid, shot from shore
Replacing propellor on one boat
Motoring through Marble Canyon
Redwall Cavern (flooded)
Marble Canyon scenery
Rapid, men with cameras
"Pres. (sic) Harding Rapid"
Boats running rapid
Stopped for lunch
Fast water
"Little Colorado River"
Boats stopped up Little Colorado River, swimming in blue water
Rapids
Camp: making beds, cooking, eating
Loading boats
"Unkar Rapid"
View of Unkar delta and rapid from cliffs above
"Hance Rapid"
Boats in Hance rapid (several different versions)
Bill Beer swimming Hance rapid
Entering Inner Gorge
Phantom Ranch: eating lunch at table, swimming in pool
Boats on river
"Granite Falls Rapid"
|
1956 June 4-11 |
4.1 | Duplicate of 3.6
Color, silent
VHS videocassette |
|
4.2 | Running Grand Canyon of Colorado River, Desloge-Sanderson Expedition
Color, silent, out of focus
VHS videocassette
Boats: one S-rig, one double pontoon)
Loading boats
Launch
Rapids
Camp
Rapids
Phantom Ranch
Helicopter
Bright Angel Creek
Views from south rim of Grand Canyon
Hiking down Kaibab Trail
Mule train
Airport at South Rim
Applying first aid for blistered feet
Lava Falls
Springs on left side below Lava Falls
Camp
Rapids
Other boats
Hiking
Swimming in river
Camp
Loading boats
Elves Chasm (out of sequence)
De-rigging boats at Diamond Creek
|
1956 September |
4.3 | Nevills Expeditions San Juan River river trip
Color, silent, backwards
VHS videocassette
Boats
Swimming
Hiking with Norman Nevills
Rapids
Cooking, camp scenes
Pres Walker
Climbing, hiking
Boats on river: Gunsight Butte
Hiking
Swimming
Rainbow Bridge
Boats on river
Mud bathing
Crossing of the Fathers plaque
Standing on driftwood log in river
Rapids
End of trip at Lees Ferry
Boats on trailer
Navajo baby
Norman Nevills
Unidentified man
Otis Marston
Joe Desloge
Unidentified man
Unidentified man
The rest of the film is out of sequence:
Camp, hiking
Film is no longer backwards:
Boats on river
Rapids
Camp
Hiking
Boats on river
|
circa 1940s |
5.1 | Nevills Expeditions Grand Canyon river trip
Color, silent, backwards
VHS videocassette
Otis Marston
Garth Marston
Rapids
Rattlesnake
Norman Nevills holding rattlesnake by tail
Scouting rapids from shore
Rapids filmed from boat
Camp
Rapids from boat
Landing boat, hauling on shore
Cooking, eating
Deer Creek Falls
Rapids: Bedrock Rapid? (wrecked barge on top of middle rock)
Havasu Creek: swimming, climbing, diving
Lining Lava Falls
Building cairn
Tow out on Lake Mead
|
circa 1947-1948 |
5.2 | Reynolds-Hallacy Expeditions Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Rapids
Gates of Lodore
Boat stuck on rock
Triplet Rapid
Lining Hell's Half Mile Rapid
|
undated |
5.3 | Nevills Expeditions Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Ashley Falls high water run
|
circa 1947 |
5.4 | Better copy of 4.2 (in focus)
Color, silent
VHS videocassette |
|
5.5 | Edited version of 4.3 (not backwards)
Color, silent
VHS videocassette |
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5.6 | Edited version of 5.1
Black and white, silent
VHS videocassette |
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5.7 | Duplicate of 5.2
Black and white, silent
VHS videocassette |
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5.8 | Nevills Expeditions Green River river trip
Color, silent, backwards
VHS videocassette
Longer version of the same trip as 5.3:
Boats on river
Ashley Falls high water run, more footage than 5.3
Man in life vest floating through rapid
Camp
Scenery
|
circa 1947 |
5.9 | Desloge family home movies
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Boat or barge trip on Hudson River
West Point
New York Harbor
Brooklyn Bridge
New York City skyline
U.S.N. destroyer
United Nations building
New York skyline with Chrysler Building
Amphibious car
Chinese Junk
Boys on barge
Goodyear blimp
Riding pony, horses
Family estate?
|
undated |
5.10-5.12 | Nevills Expeditions San Juan River trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Norman Nevills, Preston Walker, Kent Frost, Joseph Desloge, Joseph Desloge Jr., Marie Saalfrank, Anne Desloge, Zoe Desloge
Launch
Playing in river
Filming boats
Boats on river
Petroglyphs
Rapids
Hiking, climbing
Burning driftwood jammed in side canyon
Wrestling
Hiking back to boats
Filling water jugs
Boating
Lunch
Hiking
Scouting rapids
Running rapid
Building cairn with message in can
Camp on driftwood beach
Bright Angel creek
Out of sequence:
Lower Granite Gorge, Travertine Falls, fluting, rapids
Deer Creek Falls hike
Rapids from boat
Camping
Around Lava falls
Travertine Falls
Boating, swimming
Climbing
Separation Rapid plaque
Lake Mead
Randall Henderson
Columbine Falls
Power cruiser, floatplane on Lake Mead
Swimming in river
Scenery
Swimming
Signing register books at Rainbow Bridge (?)
Boating
Hiking on slickrock
Back on boat
Girl in wild swimsuit
Lizards
Hiking
Shaving
Mud baths
Sitting on boats
Scenery
Grooming
Norman Nevills shaving
Boating
Meeting people on shore with dog
Boat on trailer
|
circa 1940s |
6.1 | Nevills Expeditions Green River river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Ceremony at Expedition Island, Wyoming
Dedication of Powell monument
Start of river trip
Boating
Horses swimming in river
Firehole Towers
Girl
Stop at ranch
Livestock
Flaming Gorge
Horseshoe Canyon
Fast water
Lunch
Ashley Falls
Boating in Red Canyon
Ashley Falls again (out of sequence, black and white - this segment may have been spliced in)
Boats in rapid, one person swimming
Red Creek Rapid
Breaking camp
Red Canyon
Hiking at old ranch
Riding horses
Lunch
Rapids
Lunch
Camping
|
circa 1949 |
6.2 | Nevills Expeditions Grand Canyon river trip
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Much of this footage also appears in 1.2 and 1.3:
Map of river
Street scene, San Francisco
Flaming Gorge
Green River view of canyon from cliffs above
Ashley Falls
Gates of Lodore
Echo Park
Aerial of confluence of Colorado and Green Rivers
Cataract Canyon
Nevills boat in rapid
Glen Canyon: Outlaw Cave, mouth of San Juan River
Aerial views of Vermillion Cliffs, Marble Canyon
Buffalo
Little Colorado River
Aerial view of Grand Canyon
Map of Grand Canyon
View from rim
Emery Kolb
View from rim
Unkar Delta
Boat on river
Tanner Flats area, below Little Colorado River
Boats
Inner Gorge
Rapids: scouting Sockdologer Rapid
View of big rapids
Lining rapids: Otis Marston, Norman Nevills, Garth Marston, Margaret Marston
Re-loading boats
Lining sequence speeded up
Streets scenes in San Francisco with trolleys, turntables
Office scene, woman typing
Randall Henderson using typewriter on river, putting note in cairn
Fossils, fossil hunting
Petroglyphs
Monument Valley
Granaries at Nankoweap, Grand Canyon
Marston twins with pieces of pottery
Pottery
Sign about John Wesley Powell
F.S. Dellenbaugh inscription, Music Temple, Glen Canyon
Separation Rapid plaque
Letter from Nathaniel Galloway, inscription by Galloway
Various inscriptions: Kolb brothers, Clyde Eddy, Pathe-Bray, Hydes
Skeleton in Stanton Cave
Hiking on slickrock in Glen Canyon
Mining camps, Glen Canyon: Olympia Bar, Zahn's camp
Nevills finding chest with old clothes in Glen Canyon, modeling old clothes
Oil camp
Lizard
Scorpion
Garth Marston holding rattlesnake
Deer swimming in river
Bighorn sheep
Marston at oars of boat
Aerial tram car at Bass Camp, Grand Canyon
Bridge at Moab, Utah
Aerial of Navajo Bridge
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circa 1947-1948 |
6.3 | Miscellaneous river trips
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Map of Grand Canyon
Two boats running rapids
Bedrock rapid with boat or barge on top
Hiking
Boating at sunset
Running rapids: Unkar? Nankoweap?
Lava flows, Vulcan's throne
Wind blowing sand
Glen Canyon
Wind blowing spray in rapid (rain on river)
Deer Creek Falls, water falling into river (i.e., high water)
Monument Valley
Mexican Hat
Agathla Peak
Marston twin daughters in front of Navajo Twins (rock formation near Bluff, Utah)
Spires in Monument Valley, Mittens
Angel's Window, North Rim of Grand Canyon
Views of Grand Canyon from rims
Rapids
Havasu Creek
Diving off rocks
Boarding boat, launching at Havasu
Scouting rapids
Running various rapids
Floating rapids with inner tubes, life vests, air mattresses
Running bigger rapid (Dubendorff?)
Filming rapids from boat
Rapids from boat and shore
Otis Marston at oars of boat
Mrs. Marston in boat in rapid
Water swirling
Garth Marson swimming rapid
Sign: AWarning: do not swim in the Colorado..."
Lake M Columbine falls?
Floatplane landing
Big cruiser
Tow out
Hoover Dam. Last title is: "Rapidly yours, Dock (Marston)"
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circa 1947-1948 |
6.4-7.1 | Miscellaneous Grand Canyon footage
Color, silent
VHS videocassette
Motor boats in Grand Canyon
Bureau of Reclamation camp on rim of Marble Canyon
Aerial tramway, rim of Grand Canyon
Helicopter by river
Film taken from helicopter
Helicopter landing
Rapids: scouting, running, with helicopter overhead
Film of boat running rapids, taken from helicopter.
Powerboat in rapid (beginning of 7.1)
Blank
Powerboat on Lake Mead
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undated |
7.2 | Danger River
Olsen, Edwin E.
(creator)
Color, sound
VHS videocassette
"Danger River" consists of outtakes from Olsen's 1946 Academy Award winning short, "Facing Your Danger." Both films were compiled from footage filmed during a 1942 Grand Canyon river trip with Nevills Expeditions.
Waves in rapids
View from South Rim, Grand Canyon
Rapids
Skeleton at South Cave
Norman Nevills
Nevills working on boats, loading boats, boats on trailer approaching Lees Ferry, launching boats, packing boats
Badger Rapid: scouting, running
Flip at Tanner Rapid, 1942; Ed Hudson in water holding onto boat
Numerous scenes of running various rapids
Wreck of old boat
Skeleton--not one in South Cave
Granaries at Nankoweap
Boats in creek at Havasu
Fishing at Tapeats Creek
Deer
Rapids--Sockdologer (includes slow-motion sequence)
233 mile rapid (narrator's identification of location may be incorrect)
Sunset on cliffs
Lake Mead
Last shot of wave in rapid
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1947 |
7.3 | Duplicate of 4.2
Color, silent
VHS videocassette |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Rivers--Recreational use
- Rivers--West (U.S.)
Personal Names
- Marston, Otis R.
Geographical Names
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
- Green River (Wyo.-Utah)
Form or Genre Terms
- Moving images