Otis R. "Dock" Marston Papers - Calisphere

Visual and Oral Material
Motion Picture Film 11/21/95
Inventory of the Otis R. "Dock"
Marston Papers
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Time code: 01:49:32
Running time: 05:16 min.
Contents:
"Salmon - Snake - Winter (Ice in Salmon River - Mt. Borah - Snow around Salmon -
Plane, Salmon City)": 1949? Icy river with snow-capped mountains - mountainsides
without snow - airplane - sweep scow "City of Salmon" on pilings - antelope? [entries:
Salmon River; airplane; Salmon River Boat Tours; "City of Salmon"; scows, sweep;
pronghorn antelope]
Time code: 10:22:30
Running time: 01:40 min.
Contents:
"1949 Aleson (Aleson - Harris' boat & the raft - run rapid)": 1949. [entries: Harry
Aleson; rapidrunning; oarboats; Colorado River; inflatables; [Harris' boat]]
Time code: 03:31:18
Contents:
"Hudson 19.. (1949 Down, Beginning with loading shots LF)": 1949. Trip of the
"Esmeralda II" down the Colorado River from Lees Ferry to Lake Mead.
Time code: 06:00:00
Running time: 31:16 min.
Contents:
"Cable - Thunder Sp - Supai - Tuweap - Paria Pl - Soap - Shivwits - Mead": 1950, 1951?,
and probably several other years. Incomplete enclosed scene notes state: "Plane &
Ballard, Nav Mt. - Plane at Art Greene's - Paria Plateau - Lees Ferry - sinkhole - Soap Ck
- Cable: barge; dynamite; outboard - Harding - Little Colo. - Hance - Th. Spring - Supai
- Tuweep - Shivwits - Head, use Iceberg Canyon." Deals in general with the region of
Marble Canyon and Grand Canyon. A great deal of footage on the cable at Vasey's in
1950. There are many aerial views. Also includes "Mauna Loa Erupts 1950." [entries:
Mauna Loa; Vulcan's Anvil; Lake Mead?; Navajo Mountain; Marble Canyon?; Navajo
Bridge; cable (Bridge Canyon dam site?, Vasey's Paradise); Otis Marston; dams;
Havasupai Canyon and waterfalls; volcano (at Vulcan?, Paria Plateau); Thunder Spring;
Supai; Tuweap?; Lees Ferry; Soap Creek Rapid?; President Harding Rapid?; Little
Colorado River, mouth?; Hance Rapid; Thunder Spring; Grand Canyon; Shivwits]
Time code: 01:45:00
Running time: 01:21 min.
Contents:
"Joanne Wedding Party": early 1950s? Pool party at Marston home - one of the
Marston twins - wedding of Joan (Nevills) Stavely?, 1954?
Time code: 01:46:21
Running time: 03:01 min.
Contents:
"Spiegelberg": early 1950s? Child playing; on tricycle - various unidentified persons in
back yard; child playing - people indoors; fireplace
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