Home Movies: Grand Canyon in the 1920s (1920)
1920 · Ephemeral film · 19 min
Synopsis
Train trip through the Tehachapis, lots of train window POVs and rear-of-train receding track and tunnel POVs. Train travels through arid mountains, and saguaro and Joshua tree landscape, to Grand Canyon. Extensive footage of Grand Canyon itself. Last three minutes are Hopi Native Americans performing dances and ritual staged fights. All in full costume with full feathered headdresses and hawk wing costumes.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 19 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- home movies
- grand canyon
- trains
- joshua tree
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Just a few more steps to the right, honey. · Spuzz · 2020-09-01
Not a bad trip into the Grand Canyon, 1920s style! We start out with a train ride, and then we get to the canyon. Lots of shots "over the edge", and some with a female companion. Unfortunately, the film quality isn't all that great, so we don't get much vistas here. Ah well.
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