Manuscripts

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Description: "Cuts from C56 (Cuts from 1956 film)": 1956. Running rapids in motorboats - mud billows in water - aboard boat - Dock Marston and rest of crew - "Reminiscing at Separation Rapid" - boats on Lake Mead - Bright Angel - camp - damaged outboard motor. These are scenes from June 1956 outboard motor run down through the Grand Canyon. [entries: 1956 expedition; rapidrunning; motorboats; Dock Marston; Lake Mead; Bright Angel; Tapeats or Supai?; Frank Masland; Bill Beer; J. Ballard Atherton?; Separation Rapid; "Cactus"; Grand Canyon; Colorado River; Inner Granite Gorge]
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870-1978.
Call number: R114
Creator: Marston, Otis R(Opens in new tab)

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Manuscripts

"Motorboats down G.C. June 4-17, 1956":1956. "Through the Grand Canyon by Aluminium Boat and Outboard Motor from Lee's Ferry Arizona to Boulder City Nevada on Lake Mead, June 4-17,1956." Occasional differences from reel 111. [entries:"Through the Grand Canyon by Aluminum Boat and Outboard Motor..."; Al Green's Motel?; Vermilion Cliffs; Navajo Bridge; Marble Canyon; Badger Creek Rapid; Lees Ferry; Bill Beer; Garth Marston; Otis Marston; Willie Taylor; 1956 expedition; motorboats; Frank Masland; Joe Desloge; Soap Creek Rapid; 24 1/2 Mile Rapid; Grand Canyon; Redwall Cave; Little Colorado River, mouth; Unkar Rapid; Hance Rapid; Phantom Ranch; Bright Angel Bridge; Granite Falls Rapid; (Bass Cable?); Elves Chasm; J. Ballard Atherton?; Dubendorff Rapid; Tapeats Creek; Deer Creek Falls; Supai Canyon; Lava Falls Rapid (Vulcan); accident; Mile 217 Rapid; Separation Rapid; "Cactus"; Lake Mead; Travertine Falls; Sandy Point; Bill Belknap; Temple Bar?]

R112

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036

Manuscripts

"Cuts from C56 (Trim from Dock's Copy - G. C. 1956)": 1956. Scenes from the June 1956 run in outboard motorboats down through the Grand Canyon: river and canyon scenes - map of Grand Canyon - rapids - motorboats ashore - Deer Creek Falls - Supai - climbing cliffs - side canyons - running rapids - various people - camp - wrecked motor - in boat running Rapid - travertine fall - Lake Mead - Navajo Bridge - bathing - driving boat. [entries: 1956 Grand Canyon expedition; motorboats; Grand Canyon; Colorado River; Deer Creek Falls; Supai; rapidrunning; Travertine Falls; Lake Mead; Navajo Bridge; Marble Canyon; Lees Ferry; Bill Beer; Dock Marston; Inner Granite Gorge; Frank Masland; Atherton?; Joseph Desloge; Little Colorado River at mouth]

R115

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032

Manuscripts

"1956 (Probably 1956 - trim[?] Dock's)":1956. Scenes from the June, 1956, outboard motor down run through the Grand Canyon: wave patterns - rapids - running rapids - upset - outboard motorboats and people - canyon and river scenes - man floating - wrecked motor - running up rapids - camp scenes - repairing boat - on Lake Mead - Deer Creek Fall. [entries: 1956 expedition; motorboats; Grand Canyon; Colorado River; rapidrunning; boat repairs; Lake Mead; Deer Creek Falls; accidents (boat); Garth Marston; Frank Masland; Marble Canyon; swimming rapids; Bill Beer; (J. Ballard Atherton?); (Hugh Cutler?); "Cactus"; boat repairs; "Rattlesnake"; Joseph Desloge; Deer Creek or Elves?]

R113

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031

Manuscripts

"(1957 Extra Footage)": 1957. Enclosed are not entirely accurate scene notes. Scenes from outboard motorboat trip from Lees Ferry to Lake Mead, June 1957. [entries: 1957 expedition; motorboats; Grand Canyon; Colorado River; Joseph Desloge; Otis Marston; Lees Ferry; rapidrunning; Marble Canyon; Lake Mead; "Rattlesnake"; "Cactus"; "Gem"; oarboats; "Willie 1956" inscription; Indian ruins; repairing boats; Bright Angel Bridge; Inner Granite Gorge; "Bootoo"; waterfall; Deer Creek or Elves?]

R118

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Manuscripts

"(Master Pic Atherton)": 1956. "Through the Grand Canyon by Aluminum Boat and Outboard Motor from Lee's Ferry Arizona to Boulder City Nevada on Lake Mead June 4-17,1956.": Not entirely in sequence. [entries: "Through the Grand Canyon by Aluminum Boat and Outboard Motor...; Ballard Atherton; Bill Beer; Hugh Cutler; Josh Eisaman; Otis Marston; Frank Masland; Art Green's Motel?; Navajo Bridge; Marble Canyon; Lees Ferry; Garth Marston; Willie Taylor; Joe Desloge?; Badger Creek Rapid; Soap Creek Rapid; 24 1/2 Mile Rapid; Redwell Cave; President Harding Rapid; Little Colorado River, mouth; Unkar Rapid; Hance Rapid; swimming rapids; Phantom Ranch; Granite Falls Rapid; Hermit Rapid; aerial cable car; Elve's Chasm; Dubendorff Rapid; Tapeats Creek; Deer Creek Falls; Supai Canyon; Lava Falls Rapid (Vulcan); accident; Mile 217 Rapid; Lake Mead; Sandy Point; Bill Belknap]

R111

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025

Manuscripts

"C58": 1958. Trip of the outboard motorboats "Rattlesnake," "Cactus," and "Boo Too" down the Colorado River through Marble and Grand canyons, June 1958. [entries: 1958 expedition; motorboats; "Rattlesnake"; "Cactus"; "Bootoo"; Colorado River; Marble Canyon; Grand Canyon; Otis Marston; Little Colorado River mouth; I'Anson?; rapidrunning; Bright Angel Bridge; Granite Gorge; swimming rapids (Beer & Daggett?); Garth Marston; Tapeats?; Willie Taylor memorial plaque; boat repairs]

R123

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