Rio Grande Southern films by Stan Midgley

[douglasm]

When I was growing up in Detroit, the World Adventure Series used to hold travelogue showings at the Art Institute. They were also shown on TV (this is in the late 50's and early to mid 60's) and one of the featured travelogue artists was Stan Midgley, who by bike and Jeep toured Southwestern Colorado near the end of the RGS, and took some beautiful 16mm film of them. He died three or four years ago, and I've been wondering what happened to his film of the RGS and D&RG, and has anyone a) released it to video or b) even saved it?

Doug Shirk
Wenatchee, WA

[joesap1]

I have a video tape of Otto Perry's RGS films. It would be great to see how they would compare to Midgley's.

Hopefully, somebody has a lead to follow.

[CShaveRR]

Sorry to hear of Stan Midgley's passing (though I guess he must have been pretty old). I was in Junior High School when he showed one of his travelogues in Grand Haven, and that was my introduction to Galloping Geese. His sense of humor was something else--I'd love to see the entire travelogues made available somehow!

[Anonymous]

I did a search on Stan Midgley a couple of years ago and could only come up with an obituary at his alma mater's website (Princeton Un) and some commentary on others who were described as "like Stan Midgley" in their showings. Even though his shows were aimed at the general public he always made a great effort to emphasize railroads and rail travel.