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"The Canyon Trip Promised to Matthew Huggins" |
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The Kolb Brothers' Studio. What a relief to see the Kolb Studio after a long hike up the trail from the bottom of the canyon. You know that you are almost home! This studio was built on the rim by Emery and Elsworth Kolb, brothers from Pennsylvania, who came to the canyon on 1902, did odd jobs for the El Tovar Hotel for a short time, the purchased photographic equipment, and in 1903 began taking pictures of tourists who visited the canyon. They are particularly famous for the moving pictures that they took on their 1911-12 river trip from Green River Wyoming through the entire canyon. The resulting film that they showed in their studio was the longest running moving picture in the history of show business. They ran it from 1915 until Emery died in 1976. (Elsworth, the oldest, lost interest in the business, and went to LA in 1924.)Their studio, now a museum and book store, at the top of the Bright Angel Trail is always a beautiful sight to weary hikers coming up the Bright Angel Trail. |
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