Talk:Monument Valley
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Perhaps a special sub-section noting the Valley's appearance in film/TV would be appropriate. --Jeremy Butler 12:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, suggested section heading "Film/TV"? I found this list already http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/rothko/140/mvalley.htmlHans Erren
- I have made it so--as a subsection. I'd suggest adding more movies from the above list, but I'd limit the selection to movies in which the Valley is especially prominent. It'd be good to have a line or two describing the movie's use of the Valley. --Jeremy Butler 12:21, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Jeremy, John Fords point is the flat area with the shops where the Dineh rents his horse for a picture, not the rock outcrop on my photograph, that would be "John Wayne's point". http://home.casema.nl/errenwijlens/family/hans_monumentvalley.jpg Hans Erren
- Very interesting. I have a photo my mother took from John Ford's Point, but I (mis)understood it to be of the Point not from it. Good to get that clarified. --Jeremy Butler 12:54, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
- I can't find points with either name on the USGS geodetic map. Can someone give me a clue where it is, and I'll search in more detail. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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- "John Wayne's point" is my name-invention for the bluff where photographers usually put a horse with an indian, it is part of Elephant Butte eg http://emi-cfd-reseau.org/res2004/technique/navajos/eric/navajos3.html
- On the local map near the visitor center "John Fords point" is the position of the camera, not the position of the indian.
- http://home.casema.nl/errenwijlens/family/MonVal_JFpt.gif
- (map modified from http://www.hanksville.org/voyage/defs/monval/MonVal.gif) Hans Erren
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- here is another map http://www.roadhaus.com/images/Gallery/Monument%20Valley/images/Monument%20Valley%201b.jpg and a detailed aerial photograph http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=13&Z=12&X=363&Y=2556&W=3
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Based on these shots, I've fairly certain that the movie "Wild Wild West" featured shots of Monument Valley. Jon 15:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
- See the IMDb list that I recently added to External Links. WWW is there. —Tamfang 06:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Errors
The nearest indian village to Monument Valley is Oljato, 10 miles around Oljato mesa, though a few Navajos rent of lease land from Goulding's. Goulding's is run by whites, the Lafonts. There is no village of Goulding. Goulding's is the local Hotel, owned by RGJ corporation. They are on private land. Not all of the land is Navajo Reservation. I've lived 10 miles from MV all my life. Martinphi 05:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
