The pan begins on a terraced spur of rock with the San Juan River bending round its base, Goosenecks State Park, Utah, circa 1970.
1970 · Goosenecks State Park, Utah, United States
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As the camera moves right, the stepped terraces of the spur fill the frame and the river slips out at the left — Goosenecks State Park, Utah, 1970
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- 1970
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- Goosenecks State Park, Utah, United States
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- Still 2 · 1.97s into the source clip
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Concentric limestone terraces of a Goosenecks canyon spur, Utah, circa 1970, with the river just leaving the frame.
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A dark cliff band crosses the frame as red foreground soil with scattered shrubs comes into view.
1970 · Goosenecks State Park, Utah, United States
Still image · $49
The pan ends on another stretch of the San Juan River far below, framed by a cliff band and a red slope near the rim.
1970 · Goosenecks State Park, Utah, United States
Still image · $49
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Goosenecks State Park Utah-1970: Pan Across Terraced Canyon Walls Down to a Muddy River Meander
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Source format: 8mm home movie.
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Date documentation · estimated
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Location documentation · estimated
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Period detail
The landscape holds no dated objects; the muted colour and grain of the home-movie stock and the park sign elsewhere on the reel place it after 1962, around 1970.
Film character
Soft focus, visible grain, muted greys and tans with a warm red foreground, darkened corners and a slightly drifting handheld pan give it a projected home-movie texture.
Historical context
Goosenecks became a Utah state park in 1962, so this is a visitor's view from the park's first decades, filmed on a trip that also reached Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon.
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No people, signs, logos or buildings appear; copyright in the film is a separate matter from the public landscape shown, and the year is an estimate rather than a documented date.
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