ADVENTURE BOUND! Part 3
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Adventure Bound! Ford Motor Company promotional film. “With the Rainbow Bridge -- Monument Valley Expedition.” View of ships at South Pole - camels moving across desert - airplane in flight over city - diver descending in ocean - map of United States - close-up of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico showing Monument Valley area - panorama of Monument Valley area - Ford car driven through desert area - view of gorges in Monument Valley - Ford station wagons parked on college campus, boys getting into station wagons - caravan of station wagons leaving campus - caravan crossing large bridge - views of caravan on desert road, mountain road - views of southwest scenery - caravan of station wagons converging on camp, other station wagons and people - group posing - wrinkled, sun scarred John Webber, veteran trader, talking with group - boys loading burros in back of stake-body truck - truck and station wagon caravan moving through rough, rocky country, caravan moving through desert, El Capitan rock in background - view of El Capitan - views of owl-shaped rock - views of the Three Sisters, the Totem Pole - truck moving over rocky ground - caravan moving along stream bed, mountains in background - boys digging under truck stuck in sand - caravan moving through rocky, mountainous country - boys setting up folding boats on bank of Colorado River - views of boats on river, shooting rapids, paddling in smooth water - view of camp, boats turned over to be used as shelter - boys sliding down sand bank into water on air mattresses, floating and playing in water - boys launching boats - view of boats and river from high pinnacle - views of base camp, burros, close-ups of explorers - boy giving another a haircut - boy taking shower - washing clothes in wheelbarrow - views of Navajo Indians, close-ups of Indians, clothing and jewelry - view of Navajo summer home - Hogan - Navajo woman grinding corn - Navajo woman spinning and weaving - woman with baby in cradle board - station wagon descending into sandy gorge. A station wagon driven downhill. [1937]
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