Collection search - Part 1, The Stefansson Arctic Expedition

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Part 1, The Stefansson Arctic Expedition

Item number (ISN):

224840

Series title:

Canadian Arctic Expedition

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1913/1914

Item number (ISN):

224840

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

Accession:

1972-0118

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1913/1914

Production credit:

photography, George Hubert Wilkins

Description:

Sequences on the bow of the HMCS Karluk, Vilhjalmur Stefansson's flag ship cutting through ice floes; the Karluk stuck in ice, expedition crew on the ice; taking bearings with theodolite; shipboard views of the Karluk with Stefansson and Captain Bob Bartlett on the bridge; men leaving over the ice with a dog team and sled; James Murray working with a microscope in cabin; artifacts collected by ethnologist Diamond Jenness; John Cox and Kenneth Chipman taking readings with an instrument; Fritz Johansen taking sounding of water near an ice floe; a sled raft being launched and paddled along the ice by Storker Storkerson and Burt McConnell; Vilhjalmur Stefansson dragging a seal over the ice, reaching camp, and skinning the seal with the help of another expedition member. <6mn 50s>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

177-N

Notes:

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1. Part 1 of 4.~2. Some contextual information found in, Stuart E. Jenness, "The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expeditions 1913-1916" (2004).~3. George Hubert Wilkins died in 1958.~4. Actuality footage. Unedited.~5. In 2001, Stuart E. Jenness published "The Motion-Picture Films of G. H. Wilkins - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916". Detailed film scene descriptions with comments by Stuart Jenness, are on pages 11 to 13, referred to as "Film 4". Blue duo-tang is available in the collection file. He also indicates that, "Scenes 1, 2,3,4-8 are from Wilkins' Reel 3; Scene 9 is from Reel 2; both reels were mailed to England from Barrow, Alaska, in August 1913; Scenes 10-16 are from Wilkins' Reel 4, mailed from Herschel Island in August 1914".
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Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8007-0036
V1 2003-02-0016
V1 2016-04-0004

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

copyright expired : no donor restrictionsCrown copyright over 50 years - expired

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