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NAU.PH.99.3.1.7.103
Item number
18679
Creator
Nichols, Tad, 1911-
Title
[Major
Brady
reclining
on his
sleeping
bag
on the
beach.]
Alternate title
San
Juan
River/Glen
Canyon
-
the "
Disney
Trip
"
[constructed
title]
1955
(6/21/55
to
6/30/55)
Date
1955
Type
Image
Description
CONTENT
:
Boatmen
Frank
Wright
,
Willard
Wright
,
John
Harper
, and
Eldon
MacArthur
took
passengers
Tad
Nichols
,
Lloyd
Smith
,
Donald
Sayner
,
Major
Brady
,
Horace
Haskell
,
Harry
Dahl
,
Ruth
Young
, and
3
young
boys
(Donald
Mayfield
,
Jim
Lubach
, and
John
Cunningham)
down
the
San
Juan
River
,
through
Glen
Canyon
, to
Lees
Ferry
on a
filming
trip
for
Disney
.
Scenes
include
the
Mexican
Hat
Expeditions
boats
(Wahweap
,
Nokai
,
Piute
, and
another)
; an
abandoned
stone
cabin
;
old
mining
machinery
;
movie
cameras
and
other
photographic
equipment
;
geological
tools
and
equipment
(including
a
scintillometer)
;
several
beach
camps
; a
variety
of
camping
gear
;
Penny
, the
canine
passenger
on the
trip
;
rock
formations
;
petroglyphs
; and
various
canyon
hikes
.
Notable
sites
in these
images
are
Hidden
Passage
,
Mystery
Canyon
,
Twilight
Canyon
,
Rainbow
Bridge
, the
Klondike
Trail
, and
Labyrinth
Canyon
.
[Six
photographs
from this
trip
appear
in
Tad's
Glen
Canyon
book
:
NAU.PH.99.3.1.7.143
on
page
100;.191
on
page
142;.194
on
page
144;.198
on
page
140;.206
on
page
138
;
and.220
on the
title
page.]
BIOGRAPHICAL
HISTORY
: For
about
two
years
in the
mid-1950s
,
Tad
Nichols
worked
for
Walt
Disney
Productions
on the
short
travelogues
that were
used
in the
Mickey
Mouse
Club
Show
.
Tad
and
fellow
photographer
,
Lloyd
Smith
, had
one
segment
of the
show
in
which
to
portray
kids
on
various
adventures
. In
June
of
1955
they
took
3
young
men
(referred
to as 'the
Disney
boys')
and
some
scientists
on a
San
Juan/Glen
Canyon
adventure
. They
all
rode
in
typical
San
Juan
boats
: '
double-ended
boats
, as
distinguished
from
cataract
boats
, the
Grand
Canyon
boats
. They
didn't
have any
watertight
compartments
because
they
didn't
need
it...
'
Tad
and
Lloyd
used
sixteen
millimeter
Bolex
cameras
, and
produced
a
film
called
'The
Old
San
Juan.
'
After
the
trip
, the
film
was
turned
over
to
Disney
editors
,
who
trimmed
the
footage
to
1
1/4
hours
long
, in
order
to
air
in
15-minute
segments
over
the
5
days
of
one
week
.
Tad
filmed
several
other
adventures
for the
show
,
including
one
in the
High
Sierras
,
one
in the
Mohave
Desert
, and
even
one
in the
ocean
off
the
Catalina
Islands
. He
considered
his
time
at
Disney
as 'The
best
job
I
ever
had...
.
It
paid
us
very
well.
'
Collection name
Nichols, Tad
Finding aid
http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/nau/nichols_tad.xml
Repository
Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
Rights
ABOR
References
Tad Nichols Manuscript Collection - NAU.MS.332; Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World, Photographs and Recollections - by Tad Nichols
Subjects
Camping--Equipment and supplies
Naps (Sleep)--Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)
Places
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)
Physical format
Black
and
white
polyester
film
negative
Physical dimension
6x6 cm
Master file size
38047582
Master mimetype
image/tiff
Master file format
tif
Hardware
Imacon Flextight 848
Software
Photoshop 6.0
Master color scheme
Grayscale
Master image bit depth
16-bit
Master resolution
2040
Master pixels horizontal
4387
Master pixels vertical
4336
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