FIRST MOVIE

Watch a clip of "River of No Return" movie

The posters called it "the greatest drama of wild life ever filmed." Henry Wiedner took a fifty pound hand cranked camera down the Middle Fork and Main Salmon in a canoe in 1926. He spent three months on the river and shot almost 4000 feet of film to create his silent black & white film, "The River of No Return." He got some of his wildlife footage by setting out a block of salt and waiting until the animals discovered it. Sometimes it took him ten days to get good footage of deer and elk.