Detail View: T.D.A. Cockerell Collection: Mountain climbing

Collection Name: 
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell Papers
Title: 
Mountain climbing
Creator: 
Unidentified creator
Description: 
Hand edited film of the University of Colorado Boulder campus and students in a mountaineering club. Includes shots of Norlin Library, Sewell Hall, Varsity Lake, the McKenna Building, the Law Building and other university buildings, in summer, fall, and winter (1939-1941). Mountain club footage includes sleeping bags drying on the lawn of the Law School, a "steak and trout fry" picnic near the foothills, Chautauqua Park, the Flatirons, a nighttime "Honorary Degree" ceremony and bonfire, Tom Hutchinson, students rappelling for "masters degrees," and students hiking in the snow. Also includes views of Flagstaff Mountain, Arapahoe Glacier, and Blue Lake.
Description: 
Intertitles: 00::36 This is the way we water the lawn; 02:07 Sleeping bags and blankets are sunned before Law Building; 02:16 From 7,000-foot Flagstaff Mountain--The Front Range; 02:37 Arapaho Glacier and Peaks, 13,000 feet above the sea; 02:48 Steak & trout frys tuesdays and thursdays in the Foothills; 03:18 "Chuck" leads singing, talks up high country; 03:37 From Flagstaff we look down to Mile-High campus; 03:48 Tom Hutchinson, Doctor of Mountaineering, makes cocoa; 04:21 Graham Bolton, Isabelle Daniels rappel for Master's Degrees; 04:57 Honorary degrees are conferred, July 14th; 05:27 "Perched erratics" below the peak, above the valley; 05:32 "Sitting resters," hobnailed legs at ice-covered Blue Lake, June 20; 06:00 Lunch time on 12,900-foot peak; 06:11 With wet "aftermaths" to dry at campfire
Description: 
Title on case: Mountain Climbing in the Front Range 1938
Description: 
1 film reel (16 mm) color; silent; acetate film; 400 feet
Description: 
Runtime: 6:25
Date: 
1938-1939
Type: 
MovingImage
Format: 
motion pictures (visual works)
Format: 
color film (film, material)
Format: 
video/mp4
Coverage: 
United States--Front Range
Subject: 
University of Colorado Boulder
Subject: 
Mountaineering
Subject: 
Rappelling
Subject: 
Mountaineering--Societies, etc.
Subject: 
Hiking
Identifier: 
U183071337543_ narv_cockerell_mountainClimbingFrontRange1938_a.mp4
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/n9553716q22j
Source: 
For more information about the physical collection, visit the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.
Language: 
English
Relation: 
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell Papers; COU:359; Item Barcode: U183071337543
Rights: 
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