Joseph Desloge river running video collection, 1942-1958

With Otis "Dock" Marston.

This copy does not contain parts excerpted for composite print on 09/20/1954.

With Otis "Dock" Marston and others.

Mexico City, Guadalajara (1951)

Green River, Hell's Half Mile (1953)

Wind River Mountains river trip with Erma and Christy (1954)

Green River (1955)

With Otis "Dock" Marston and others.

Joe Desloge, A.H., M.D. and Zoe Desloge.

Joe Desloge, Marie Saalfrank and A.K. Reynolds.

With Hugh Cutler, Otis "Dock" Marston and others.

Composite print including boat upset, Otis "Dock" Marston, etc.

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.

Boat trip, Statue of Liberty, New York City skyline, etc.

Film was originally labeled "Green River". Starts with a ceremony at Expedition Island, Wyoming, with the dedication of the Major Powell monument. Includes footage of river trips, horse riding, and livestock on a ranch. Some of the places depicted are Flaming Gorge, Horseshoe Canyon, Red Canyon, and Red Creek rapids. In addition to the Green and Colorado Rivers. Names of people in the film: Norman Nevills, Anne Desloge, Joe Desloge, Marie Saalfrank, Comptons, Arthur, Botty, and John.

Helicopter, etc.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Probably in Missouri:

Children on swings

Playing with dogs

Climbing trees

Swimming

Biking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

Rapids

Gates of Lodore

Boat stuck on rock

Triplet Rapid

Lining Hell's Half Mile Rapid

Ashley Falls high water run

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

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?

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

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

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

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)"

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

"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