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...Hollywood producer sat down and thought it might be great fun to make a parody of a disaster movie. The product of his thoughts was The Big Bus, the story of a nuclear-powered bus that ends up half over a cliff in the middle of the Grand Canyon. While Airplane! is light years ahead of its grounded partner, it leaves you only with some funny one-liners; it's not the four-jokes-a-page side-splitter it strives to be. Like the poor suckers who chose the fish, you'll end up enjoying it while you consume...
Immortal in Lipstick. Cleaning up is not easy, either. Only this spring has the Park Service figured out how to cope with the problem of Box Canyon. Box Canyon, in Mount Rainier National Park, contains such a remarkable example of glacial action that in 1957 the park ran a blacktop trail into the canyon and put up a marker calling attention to the phenomenon...
...could easily be inscribed with personal data, and within no time there was a 300-ft.-long sweep of modern hieroglyphics. Last summer the first of the four-letter words appeared, to be followed by such a flood of pornographic graffiti that the better Boy Scout leaders struck Box Canyon off their lists of educational outings...
Sandblasting is no solution; it leaves behind it a whitened area that merely invites a new literary effort. But a new technique has now been devised, which combines light sandblasting with a stain made of umber and regional soils, and Box Canyon will soon look almost the way it did before-with the addition of a fence to keep the public at arm's length...
Film Travel Club usually leaves the beautiful propaganda to others and concentrates on natural wonders, like the Grand Canyon, or exotic people in remote, politically inoffensive settings. "We'll show anything that holds people's interest," says Senkevich, whose TV style can best be described as low-key. "What interests them most of all is mysterious tribes, like the Australian aborigines or peoples that live along the Amazon...