Film Record: Bryce Canyon Trails

Still image from Bryce Canyon Trails in Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 512.

Date produced: 1947

Filmmaker(s):

Frank E. Gunnell

Languages:

English

Length:

1000 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc and narrative.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1947 - General Class
Union Pacific Railroad Amateur Film Contest 1946 - Second Prize, $500

Description:

"In a land that abounds in colorful formations, Frank Gunnell's discerning camera has recorded in appealing detail the less usual, as well as the familiar, views of Bryce Canyon. This thorough coverage of a popular national park is enhanced by pleasant scenes of a pack trip, closeups of the darting antics of a chipmunk and a "running gag" of the hungry cameraman, whose equipment .cases carry edibles with film and filters. Bryce Canyon Trails provides the audience with a wholly entertaining tour of this famous and awesome natural wonder. Mr. Gunnell, as always, presents breath taking camera work in his integrated and admirable reproduction of a vast canvas." Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 514.

Resources:

The film won first award in a Metropolitan Motion Picture Club members' film contest in 1946 (Movie Makers, Jan. 1947, 26).

Locations:

• Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (Filming)

Subjects:

• National parks and reserves
• Nature
•      Geography
• North America
•      United States
•           Utah

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1947: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1947: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Bell Laboratories Motion Picture Club in 1950: Murray Hill, N.J.

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