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They filmed Deliverance II on that river. It was going well for a while, but one day the film crew did not come back. The found them frozen into the stream in mid stroke. Winter comes suddenly in those parts. It was not a total loss. They were entered in the annual ice sculpture in Perseverance, AK and won honourable mention.

(editor's note: 37 people lost their lives in the year following the release of Deliverance trying to shoot the various rapids of the Chatooga River on which this movie was shot.)