A home movie produced by Ken and Kath Ellwood of a trip to the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona where they watch Native American dancers perform before going on a pony trek into the canyon passing both Bright Angel Shale and Rainbow Forest. Travelling across the desert to Oklahoma City they watch Native American children dancing before Ken flies a light aircraft over the city. The film ends in a hotel pool at Miami near Tulsa in Oklahoma with friends of the Ellwood’s and their young son....

A home movie produced by Ken and Kath Ellwood of a trip to the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona where they watch Native American dancers perform before going on a pony trek into the canyon passing both Bright Angel Shale and Rainbow Forest. Travelling across the desert to Oklahoma City they watch Native American children dancing before Ken flies a light aircraft over the city. The film ends in a hotel pool at Miami near Tulsa in Oklahoma with friends of the Ellwood’s and their young son. A pair of hands opening a tourist brochure for the Grand Canyon changes to vistas of the canyons themselves. Ken Ellwood walks into shot looking out across the wide-open landscape. A group of tourists standing at another viewing platform admire the views themselves as Kath Ellwood looks through a mini telescope. Native American dancers perform a routine for a group of watching tourists. Part of the performance could be a type of pride dance as several performers are dressed as souring birds or eagles. Another performer dances with a hoop. A vulture sitting in a precipice flies off passing near to a group of tourists coming along a trail riding ponies. They come to a stop beside a hitching post and go for a walk looking down on the Colorado River below. A couple lean on a post, a lizard sits on a nearby stone scurries away. Two women pose beside a deer which stands in the shade beside several picnic tables. Other deer nearby, one eating from a branch. A pair of shoes and socks laying on the ground changes to a pair of feet paddling in a stream. The pony trek continues passing through a desert valley and passing a sign for Bright Angel Shale. The ponies and their riders come around a corner along a track that overlooks wide vistas and a deep valley below. At the rear and on-foot comes Ken Ellwood, he takes a swig from a water bag. At Rainbow Forest Ken picks up and looks at a large rock holding it up to the camera. A view of the petrified forest and a cut section of a petrified tree on display. A couple walk past a sign for the forest and Ken takes a photograph of the surrounding landscape. Phantom car ride with the setting sun reflecting in the passenger rear-view mirror. The car stopped and the sun continuing to set over distant hills. A large road sign reads ‘Desert Ahead! Prepare – Next Stop’. The journey continues changing to Ken sitting at a table eating a section of watermelon with a fork. A holiday brochure for ‘Oklahoma Holiday’ and a pair of hands turning it over to show a picture of a Native American on the back. A group of Native American children perform a series of dance routines occasionally accompanied by a grown up, more sitting on benches around the covered area watching. Two of the children in colourful outfits pose for the camera. A small girl pulls her younger sibling along a garden path in a red Radio Flyer wagon. Ken then pulls both children in the wagon along the path. A light aircraft is pushed out of a hanger changing to it in the air flying over a town or city. Ken and Kath Ellwood sit in the front seats with Ken at the controls banking the plane left. Sitting in the shallows of a hotel swimming pool a man plays with a toddler, he passes the boy to his mother. Ken followed by Kath swim over. Standing beside a car in a desert location is the couple seen in the pool, the woman posing with the toddler. Ken closes the rear door of the car before getting into the driver’s seat. End credit: The end