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Remembering Hells Canyon Analysis

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On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 I attended a geography film event at Sykes called “Remembering Hells Canyon.” The creator of this film, Patricia Keith, attended this event. Patricia Keith teaches video production at a college level. Her production company, Buffalo Eddy Productions has created many films. They’re mostly known for making in-hand adventures films in places like South America, Southeast Asia, China, Canada and much more. Patricia explained how difficult it was to film these adventure films. Most of these films are constructed in a remote location. These remote locations are very hard to access by foot. Buffalo eddy used transportation like busses, trains, bush planes, carts, wagons, ferries, canoes, and land cursers to access the remote …show more content…

I was surprised when I found out that people live along side of such a beautiful canyon like this. It is said that still to this day you can see signatures of past residence that lived here on rocks and cabins. Although many don’t remain settled there today, they still make routine deliveries to forest service locations. It is amazing that a mail delivery system dating back to the 1920’s still continues today. The most amazing part of this film is seeing how settlers lived in such a remote place on earth. No electricity, no running water etc. Many citizens came to the United States because of the industrial revolution. This reminds me of when we talked about the citizens came over seas in hopes of a better life and getting a job. These citizens all lived in Miami and created their own community much like Hells Canyon. While I was watching this film I just could not understand on why many settlers chose to live here. Setting in the Hells Canyon is the complete opposite of the industrial revolution. We talked about in class, people often are not choosing where to live but actually forced to live where they do. I think the example of the Hells Canyon is the opposite. Many settlers have actually moved and choose to live in this wild

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