“RED ROCK COUNTRY” 1950s NORTHERN ARIZONA TRAVELOGUE GRAND CANYON, JEROME, FLAGSTAFF, SEDONA 69584

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This mid-1950s color travelogue film, which was likely part of a series called “Holiday, .“, explores northern Arizona. The hosts are a couple named Austin and Blessing Green, with Austin (who apparently worked as a weatherman for Los Angeles TV station KNXT) narrating. We follow them in their red convertible to a Native American Pow Wow, ancient ruins and end with a parade and rodeo. The cities highlighted are Flagstaff, Sedona and Prescott. Native Americans perform traditional dances, according to the narration these rituals had not been photographed since 1913. The main titles of our print are missing, so the film begins with a map of the United States (00:17). Aerial views of mountains and valleys of the Grand Canyon. Shot of San Francisco Peaks, the highest point in Humphreys Peak (00:43). More aerial shots of lakes and Flagstaff, Arizona. Shots of motels such as “Flamingo Motor Hotel,” “Park Plaza Motel” “Hotel El Rancho” (1:15). Close up of a flyer for a Pow Wow. Montage of Museum of northern Arizona. Pan of Arizona State College (1:44). Red convertible drives to the Lowell Observatory (2:19). Close up of the telescope. The car drives through Ponderosa Pine to Walnut Canyon. Views of limestone cliffs. Tree trunks float in a pond outside of a sawmill (3:10). Tractors and workers process the lumbar. The car drives up to Sunset Crater, and ancient volcano (3:40). Long shot of a meteor crater. Baton twirlers and a band leads a parade. Horse drawn wagons. Native Americans sing and dance (5:00). They are in head dresses and colorful outfits. A group of Native American men dance the Eagle Dance, a Taos war dance (5:39). Blessing speaks with members of the Navajo tribe. They perform an ancient medicine dance the Yeibichai (6:11). The Hopi perform the Buffalo dance (7:08). The dance had not been photographed since 1913. Slow pans of Oak Tree Canyon (8:53). A car crosses Midgley Bridge. The car drives into Sedona, Arizona. The city is framed by beautiful red rock mountains (9:16). The red Plymouth drives past the sign for “Montezuma Castle National Monument.” The couple gazes at the monument (10:42). It is an ancient cliff dwelling of the Sinagua Indians in Camp Verde. The couple walk up to Montezuma Well (11:09). Close up of the sign for “Tuzigoot National Monument,” a prehistoric Pueblo (12:04). The couple walk around the ruins. Panoramic of the surrounding valley. Sign reads “Jerome …Ghost City” (13:05). Pans of the empty mining town. The couple walk to the ruins of a bank. Sign reads “This is Jerome’s Famous Traveling Jail….” Shot of the jail that has sunk into the earth. The Plymouth drives through Granite Dells. The couple stop at a swimming hole (14:06). Views entering Prescot. A group of men in cowboy hats walk down the street. Smoki Kachina hangs over the street (15:26). Smoki is a fictional tribe created by business owners in Prescot to raise money for the rodeo. People walk out of the stone Smoki museum. Shot of the log Governor’s Mansion. Sign for Hassayampa Country Club. Shiny cars drive under American flags down the street once known as Whiskey Road (16:16). Shot of the Palace Bar. Couple walks into Court House Park to see the statue of Buckey O’Neill, one of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. Rodeo Parade. Many floats have western and frontier themes, including a Davy Crockett float. A clown does a trick with a tiny horse then rides it down the street (17:58). Men on horseback lead the town to the rodeo. Governor Ernest William McFarland opens comes out on horseback and signals the start of the rodeo (19:07). The chutes open and horses buck out with men holding on. A man is bucked off. A calf is lassoed and its legs are tied together. Next is steer wrestling. A man jumps off a horse and tackles a running steer (20:55). The steer is thrown onto its side. A man rides a wildly bucking bull. Rodeo clowns hop around. A man is thrown into a wooden fence by the bull. End credits: Produced by Austin Green and James Loomis, Associate Producers Leslie O’Pace and George Goodson. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit