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High Arctic

Item number (ISN):

43439

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1962/1963

Item number (ISN):

43439

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE / GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA

Accession:

1987-0087

Media:

Film

Original title:

High Arctic

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1962/1963

Release date:

1963

Production company:

Lewis Cotlow (Producer)

Production credit:

director/producer, Lewis Cotlow; photography/associate producer, Douglas Sinclair; music, Meyer Kupferman; narrator, Leonard Graves

Cast credit:

Akpaliapik, Markosie, Okoko, Ouisa, Imooshie, Pangootoo, Constable Terry Jenkin, Constable Bob Bacchus, Special Constable Ninjn

Country of production:

us

Description:

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Made in the course of two expeditions to the Arctic region of Ellesmere Island, Jones Sound and Baffin Island in 1962 and 1963. Producer Lewis Cotlow (1898-1987) focusses on the life of an extended Inuit "family" who follow the traditional, semi-nomadic ways of the hunter society, to portray the adaptation and survival strategies necessary in the frigid environment of the northern Arctic.~The opening sequence shows Clifford W. Harvison, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, inviting Cotlow to make a film on the High Arctic. Aerial views of the rugged terrain of the High Arctic follow as Cotlow and the film crew fly into the RCMP detachment at Grise Fiord staffed by Constables Terry Jenkin and Bob Bacchus and Special Constable Ningjn.~Sequences focus on life in a group of five families headed by expert hunters Akpaliapik and Markosie and their extended families, relationships between family members, preparation and cooking of meals, a "trial marriage," the band migrating by dog sled to new seal hunting grounds, building of an igloo, seal hunting with a teliwak hunting screen, walrus hunting, and killing of a polar bear, construction of igloos and hunts for walrus and polar bear.~Other footage includes trading of fur pelts, target practice with both rifle and harpoon, soapstone carving, making of caribou sinew thread and the sewing of parkas, and gift giving to the children by the filmmaker.~The shy but affectionate relationships among the Inuit family members and the "trial marriage" of Okoko and Ouisa provide a convivial contrast to the band's austere struggle for survival. <64mn 50s>

Subjects:

GRISE FIORD ~INUIT~NORTHWEST TERRITORIES~ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE~COTLOW, LEWIS

Language:

English

Original number:

FE-66~FE-67~FE-68

Notes:

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1. Some details can be found in the book "In Search of the Primitive" by Lewis Cotlow; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1966.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

47256

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8704-0380
8704-0381

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

47264

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8704-0382
8704-0383

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.3%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

47271

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8704-0384
8704-0385

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

68350

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8711-0019

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Restricted by creator/donor

Consultation copy number:

V1 8711-0019

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD065

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Lewis Cotlow.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Director of Information Access/Privacy, RCMP

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