The Great Southwest
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.19
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
setName: label: See more items in
content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (1 hour 32 minutes, color silent; 3,290 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel in the American Southwest. Film focuses on places of interest including Las Vegas, Boulder, Painted Desert, Kingman, the Petrified Forest, and the Grand Canyon. Extensive footage is given to the Grand Canyon and Boulder in particular. Includes footage of city scenes, landscape panoramas, methods of travel, and tourist activities. Film is edited to include older black and white footage used to explain history of the area.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs

Legacy keywords: Tourism ; National parks and reserves ; Landscapes ; Nature ; Deserts ; Cities and towns