Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was shown as a supplement during Sleeping Beauty's initial run, and it won an Academy Award in 1959 for Best Short Subject (Live Action) It is also included as a bonus feature on the 1997 laserdisc, 2003 DVD, and 2008 DVD & Blu-ray releases of Sleeping Beauty.
According to the opening credits, Grand Canyon is "a pictorial interpretation of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite", much as the animated segments in Fantasia are pictorial representations of music, and the film is strongly related to its soundtrack.
The film has no live actors, no dialogue, and no narration, only musical accompaniment and live footage of the dessert, canyon, river, animals, plants, sunrise, clouds, storms, snow, and sunset.
==Gallery==
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File:GrandCanyonMusicStandPaintedDesertandSunrise.jpg|Grand Canyon Suite: Painted Desert & Sunrise
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File:GrandCanyonMusicStandOnTheTrail.jpg|Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail
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File:GrandCanyonMusicStandCloudburst.jpg|Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst
File:GrandCanyonMusicStandSunsetandFinale.jpg|Grand Canyon Suite: Sunset & Finale
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==External links==
*Grand Canyon at the Internet Movie Database
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Category:Documentaries
Category:1958 films
Category:Disney films
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Category:Sleeping Beauty
Category:1958 shorts
Category:Live-action shorts
Category:Live-action films
Category:Nature documentaries
Category:Academy Award winning films
Category:Cinemascope Films
Category:Cinemascope Shorts