Grand Canyon National Park DVD, Discover Grand Canyon

"I've walked the Grand Canyon rim to rim, run its gut in a wood boat and camped among its inner inhabitants. This video is the closest possible to the real thing."
Don Dedera, former Editor of Arizona Highways Magazine and noted Southwest author

Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon is a DVD that combines the natural and human history of Grand Canyon into a compelling story. It explains why this gorge is the natural wonder of the world. The Grand Canyon Association selected it as the only media gift they presented to the First Lady of the United States when she visited the Grand Canyon. Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon is a five-time gold medal award-winning experience of Grand Canyon unlike any other.

Echoes Through Time helps you discover the best things to see and do at Grand Canyon. It is filled with stunning images from all seasons, exciting Colorado River rafting scenes, breath-taking views of nature at its grandest, plus fascinating interviews that provide viewers with an unforgettable Grand Canyon experience.

Tours of the the world-famous El Tovar Hotel and Grand Canyon's other historic buildings, like The Watchtower, designed by maverick architect Mary Colter, and Hopi House are accompanied by rare archival footage. Humorous and interesting stories from settlers, early travelers and native tales bring Grand Canyon's past to life. All this and more is in the award-winning DVD Echoes Through Time Grand Canyon.

Experience Grand Canyon's majesty in all its seasons with the people who live and work there. Expert Park Rangers explain what makes the Canyon so unique and how it came to be. Learn about Grand Canyon nature and the amazing lives of its animals and plants. Find out the best view points, the most interesting things to do and much, much more.

Join a Hopi guide to gain an understandingof Grand Canyon's Native American art, culture and spiritual heritage - both ancient and modern. Explore the meaning behind traditional stories of Grand Canyon's first people and see how one Hopi woman, Nampeyo, bravely broke with centuries-old taboos to become the first famous Native American artist.

Float the mighty Colorado River and see nature at its most rugged and most delicately beautiful in the inner canyon. Feel the heart pounding excitement of shooting some of the world's great rapids. Share the adventure as one-armed John Wesley Powell leads the first expedition through the last uncharted American frontier.

Share hilarious Wild West tall tales with John Hance, called the "biggest liar at Grand Canyon." Follow the adventures of the first tourists who rode mules down perilous trails into the canyon and were captured on film by daredevil pioneer photographers and filmmakers, the Kolb Brothers, Ellsworth and Emory.

Go Inside historic structures that defined Southwest architecture. The witty and remarkable Mary Jane Colter, whose genius and vision challenged architectural conventions 20 years before women in America could even vote, left her legacy at the Canyon. Many of her greatest works, built for the Fred Harvey Company, are at Grand Canyon including the spectacular Watchtower. The fascinating story of the legendary El Tovar Hotel, the "hotel they built the canyon too near to," is also told.

"Echoes Through Time is just beautiful...a spectacularly done, thoroughly original program that weaves a web connecting the geology, the role of the river and the people - all the forces that make Grand Canyon grand."
Robert W. Koons, Grand Canyon Association President

AWARDS & HONORS

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block selects Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon to be part of the major exhibition "The Grand Canyon: From Dream to Icon" August 12, 2006 - January 7, 2007

For more information about "The Grand Canyon: From Dream to Icon" exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block click here: Exhibitions
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The First Lady of the United States was presented with a copy of Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon as a gift of the Grand Canyon Association during her official visit to Grand Canyon. It was the only media work chosen for this honor as the film that best explains the wonders of the park.

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5 Gold Awards
3 Gold Special Jury Awards
for Best Travel - Best Nature - Best History - Cinematography - Editing
Silver Award for Outstanding Documentary Research/Writing
Houston International Film Festival

2 Top Telly Awards
including Nature

Hailed as "the most exceptional film we have ever seen about the Grand Canyon" by the Worldfest Flagstaff Film Festival.

El Tovar Hotel, best hotel in Grand Canyon National Park

Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon has been awarded the Fred Harvey Trading Company Seal by Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Grand Canyon National Park's official concessionaire. This is in recognition of its historic, educational and artistic merits. It is the only Grand Canyon DVD/video selected for this honor. It received a standing ovation when screened at a convention of the Fred Harvey Company/ Xanterra Parks & Resorts.

REVIEWS, ETC.

ARIZONA DAILY SUN
"Watching the video, Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon might not be as breathtaking as actually being at the Grand Canyon and experiencing it first hand, but it comes close...Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon is a quick, but comprehensive foray into a multitude of subjects relevant to the Grand Canyon...

The video uses narration and recreated voices and quotes from historical figures mixed with interviews of park rangers to create a colorful montage worth watching more than once. The soundtrack, mixing the soft voice of the Canyon with often-haunting music, intensifies the viewer's sense of identification with the images.

There is information on geology, flora and fauna from the 1 billion years of Earth's history exposed to view, to the ponderosa pine, juniper, mule deer and peregrine falcons who make the canyon home. There is the history of the human element involved in the Grand Canyon's mystery and wonder - from the early ancient Native Americans who settled in and around the Canyon and the contemporary Native Americans who still have a deep connection with it, to the efforts of Mary Colter and the Fred Harvey corporation in making the Grand Canyon a destination spot for tourists around the globe.

Additionally, there is information on figures such as Colorado River explorer John Wesley Powell and artist Thomas Moran, and on how Hermit's Rest and the El Tovar Hotel got their names. Learn about the Cameron Dispute, the Hopi House and yarn-spinner John Hance."

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINE, Former Editor, Don Dedera
"I've walked the Grand Canyon rim to rim, run its gut in a wood boat and camped among its inner inhabitants. This video is the closest possible to the real thing. This remarkable, eloquently written, beautifully filmed multi-media statement yields compelling rewards to the viewer with effects scarcely attempted before that are in exact good taste. Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon is an extraordinary creation, an insightful, instructive and inspirational work."

FLAGSTAFF LIVE! Magazine
Echoes Through Time is a video tapestry, skillfully woven from all the elements that make Grand Canyon the world attraction it is."

GRAND CANYON ASSOCIATION, President, Robert Koons
Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon is just beautiful, spectacularly done. The outstanding, seasonally diverse photography really sets it apart. Echoes Through Time is a thoroughly original program that clearly shows an understanding of all the entities that come together to make Grand Canyon.

The program weaves a web connecting the natural elements of the Canyon with the multi-cultural human involvement, both historic and pre-historic. It expertly describes the physical forces in the Canyon and the inter-realtionship of those forces that make Grand Canyon grand."

THE HEARD MUSEUM, Director, Martin Sullivan
"Echoes Through Time is a wonderful production. It is quite moving and informative about the connection between the natural history and beauty of the Canyon and the textured human encounter. The visual elemenys of the production tell the story as eloquently as the informative and diverse commentators.

The way in which the program illustrates the relationship of (pioneer architect) Mary Jane Colter to the Hopi and other native peoples and weaves that into the experience of tourism is so interesting.

Echoes Through Time asks questions that have not been asked before, allows us to hear the perspectives of the actual people of that time and helps us understand why people seek out experiences of sacred places like the Grand Canyon."

Tucson Museum of Art, Director of Education, Stephanie J. Coakley
"Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon" is exactly what I looked for. It not only provides numerous interesting facts, photographs and interviews about the canyon's long history but... includes information about the geographical and weather phenomena that I wanted visitors to be aware of when looking at landscape paintings in the galleries. Museum staff and volunteers continue to hear only positive and enthusiastic comments about the film."

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FYI (Details)

Grand Canyon

Running time: 54 minutes
Format: DVD compatible with all regions. VHS - NTSC, PAL.
The DVD includes two extras: Canyon Spring and Shooting Star: Great Photographers of the West featuring the photos of Ansel Adams, W.H. Jackson and Carleton Watkins. Shooting Stars was voted best independent History film of 2003 at the Houston International Film Festival and has been a selection at film festivals nationally.

Includes DVD Extra: Photography in the Old West
SHOOTING STARS: GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE WEST

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