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Riverbed and green trees below layered sandstone walls near the Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1972 Super 8 film.

The shot opens on the riverbed and trees at the foot of the canyon wall near the Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park, circa 1972.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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$Mid-tilt view of a fractured sandstone wall and green shrubs in Zion Canyon, Utah, with a strip of bright sky, circa 1972 home movie.$

As the camera tilts up, the riverbed leaves the frame and the fractured sandstone wall takes over.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Pinkish sandstone face and a plant-covered cliff framing bright sky in Zion Canyon, Utah, circa 1972 Super 8 footage.

Higher up, the rock turns pinkish red and the gap of sky between the two walls widens.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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End of the tilt: reddish sandstone wall and a wedge of washed-out sky above Zion Canyon, Utah, circa 1972 home movie film.

The tilt ends on a wedge of washed-out sky between the reddish sandstone wall and a dark, plant-hung cliff.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Temple of Sinawava trailhead sign in Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1972, with white routed lettering on red-brown wood and foliage behind.

The trailhead sign at the Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park, circa 1972, as the shot opens.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Super 8 frame of the wooden park sign marking the start of the trail to the Zion Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1972.

The sign gives the elevation as 4411 ft and marks the start of the trail to the Zion Narrows.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Routed wooden sign at the Temple of Sinawava in Zion Canyon, Utah, circa 1972, framed slightly left with pale ground and stems at right.

A slight handheld drift moves the sign left, showing pale ground and plant stems beside it.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Zion National Park sign at the Temple of Sinawava, circa 1972, showing the G. K. Gilbert 1872 quotation and interpretive program line.

The lower lines quote G. K. Gilbert, 1872, and direct visitors to the other side of the sign for the interpretive program.

1972 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Red sandstone butte in muted light above slickrock benches, probably southeastern Utah, circa 1970, on 8mm film.

The butte in even, muted light at the start of the time-lapse, with a bright cloud bank behind its left side.

1970 · Utah, United States

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Clouds streak over a banded sandstone butte in likely Utah canyon country, circa 1970, in an 8mm time-lapse.

Midway through the shot, cloud streams across the sky and the upper rock begins to warm in colour.

1970 · Utah, United States

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Evening sun starts to colour the upper face of a red rock butte, probably southeastern Utah, circa 1970 home movie.

Low sun begins to reach the upper right face of the butte as the cloud bank draws back.

1970 · Utah, United States

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Sunset lights a sandstone butte glowing orange above shadowed slickrock, likely Utah, circa 1970, 8mm film frame.

The peak of the sunset light: the right face of the butte glows orange while the benches below stay in shadow.

1970 · Utah, United States

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Small figure in a white shirt walks across slickrock below Wilson Arch, Utah, circa 1970, with pale sky through the opening above.

A lone walker crosses the bare rock beneath the span, circa 1970. Projector debris shows in the opening.

1970 · Wilson Arch, Utah, United States

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Walker reaches the right edge of the slickrock apron under Wilson Arch in southeastern Utah, circa 1970 home movie frame.

The walker nears the edge of frame, dwarfed by the rock wall and its opening.

1970 · Wilson Arch, Utah, United States

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Wilson Arch, Utah, circa 1970: the span and streaked cliff above it after the camera lifts, with juniper on the ledges below.

After a slight upward tilt the frame holds on the span and the cliff face above it.

1970 · Wilson Arch, Utah, United States

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Closing view of Wilson Arch above juniper-dotted slickrock in southeastern Utah, circa 1970, in grainy colour home movie film.

The closing seconds hold on the opening and the tree-dotted ledges beneath it.

1970 · Wilson Arch, Utah, United States

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Cross-bedded orange and cream sandstone dome with pines, probably Zion National Park, Utah, in circa 1968 home movie film.

A sunlit dome of cross-bedded sandstone, probably in Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Swirled sandstone layers on a sunlit dome, likely southern Utah circa 1968, with a film-gate hair visible at upper right.

The camera holds on the layered rock; a hair in the gate shows briefly at the top right.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Rounded slickrock formation with sweeping cream and orange bands above dark pines, likely Zion, Utah, circa 1968.

Sweeping bands of cream and orange cross the face of the dome above a line of dark pines.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Soft-focus end of a circa 1968 home movie shot of a banded sandstone dome, probably on the east side of Zion in Utah.

The shot ends on the same dome, slightly softer, with foreground trees dark against the lit stone.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Prickly pear cactus and a conifer below a red and cream sandstone cliff, probably the Zion area of Utah, circa 1968.

The shot opens on prickly pear cactus and a conifer below a sunlit sandstone cliff, probably in the Zion area of Utah, circa 1968.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Soft-focus home movie frame of cactus pads and dry grass beneath a tall sandstone cliff, likely southern Utah, circa 1968.

Mid-shot, the framing is unchanged: cactus pads and dry grass in the foreground, the cliff face in full sun behind.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Desert vegetation of cactus, shrubs and a conifer under red and cream rock walls, probably near Zion National Park, circa 1968.

Pale green cactus, dark shrubs and a conifer sit below red and cream rock walls in a steady, soft-focus frame.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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Sunlit sandstone cliff above a cactus clump and a small evergreen on red ground, Utah canyon country, circa 1968 home movie.

Near the end of the shot the sunlit cliff still stands over the cactus clump and small evergreen, with no camera movement.

1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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