Manuscripts

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Description: "Ballard Atherton, 1959, Disney Cruise, Copy - Colorado River, 1959 (with Disney Group)": 1959. Trip from Lees Ferry to Lake Mead of Disney film crew shooting scenes for "Ten Who Dared." [Has magnetic striping for sound, but no sound on it.] [entries: Lees Ferry; Disney Productions; J. Ballard Atherton; Colorado River; Marble Canyon; Grand Canyon; "Ten Who Dared" (motion picture); Disney cruise, 1959; motorboats; "II"; "Rattlesnake"; "Cactus"; Navajo Bridge; House Rock; Jim Algar?; Otis Marston; film production; Redwall Cave; Little Colorado River, mouth; boat repairs; Bright Angel Trail?; Tapeats?; Bill Beer; Lava Falls Rapid (Vulcan)?; Buzz Belknap?; Travertine Falls; Lake Mead; Vasey's Paradise?]
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870-1978.
Call number: R129
Creator: Marston, Otis R(Opens in new tab)
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Manuscripts

"Colorado River Trip, June 1957, Ballard Atherton": 1957. Trip by three outboard motorboats from Lees Ferry to Lake Mead, June 1957. [entries: "Boating Through the Grand Canyon"; Grand Canyon; Lees Ferry; Otis Marston; Willie Taylor, plaque; accidents; Navajo Bridge; Marble Canyon; Little Colorado, mouth; Deer Creek Falls?; Lake Mead; "Cactus"; "Rattlesnake"; "Bootoo"; motorboats; Travertine Falls]

R117

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Manuscripts

"Ballard Atherton - 1959 - Marston-Disney Cruise - Reel no. 2 - Orginal film": 1959. Almost all of this reel is identical with reel 129, except the first third of the trip has been spliced on at the end instead of the beginning. Includes: make-up and costuming - shooting rapids - at the shore - camp scenes - river and canyon scenes - mouth of Little Colorado River - repairing outboard motor and boat hull - filming - pack train - running rapids from in boat - side streams - shoes with sand - fishing - cooking - boat trying to run up rapids - Lees Ferry, start of trip - Navajo Bridge - running rapids - make-up and costuming. [entries: "Ten Who Dared" (motion picture); Disney Productions; motorboats; "II"; Redwall Cave; Marble Canyon; Grand Canyon; Little Colorado River, mouth; Bright Angel Trail; Buzz Belknap; "Cactus"; I'Anson?; Otis Marston; Bill Beer; "Rattlesnake"; Travertine Falls; Lake Mead]; "Bootoo"; Navajo Bridge; Lees Ferry; House Rock]

R130

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"(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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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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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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019

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"1960 - Jets - Print (Prints - Buzz[?] - Pug - Dock & Up 1960": 1960. Excess footage on the down and up runs of the Turbocraft jet boats through the Grand Canyon, including the accident to Austin. [entries: '"Miss Turbocraft"; Grand Canyon; rapidrunning; Lees Ferry; 1960 jetboat downrun; "Little Squirt"; Georgie White; inflatables; Dock Marston; Bill Austin injury; helicopter; Garth Marston; Lake Mead; 1960 jetboat uprun; Lava Falls Rapid?; sadirons; Mexican Hat Expeditions; Phantom Ranch; Grand Canyon; boat repairs; jetboats; J. Ballard Atherton?]

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