Compilation of seven reels of motion picture film shot by Henry Larsen, shotlisted as follows. Footage includes Northwest Passage voyage from 1940-1942:~Reel 1 (1945-1948): Lunenberg; walrus on ice floes; walrus being hauled on board; view of the St. Roch likely from the 1945-1946 voyage; siding erected to hold walrus carcasses; siding painted blue-gray; loading the ship; Larsen's daughter on board; sailing through ice; Cashin in the chains; Cashin skinning fish; flowers and vegetation in the North; the land; seaplane; Eskimo dogs; hunt at the wheel on Monkey Island; view of the Saint-Roch painted blue-gray colour; Eskimos on deck; view of boats piled on deck; gardening; swimming; kayak paddling; Eskimos; Eskimo baby on board; St. Roch entering Vancouver Harbour; family pictures; Cashing cutting ice around stern, likely from the 1947-1948 voyage; St. Roch wintering in ice, likely during the 1947-1948 voyage; St. Roch painted battleship gray; Cashin with sled; life in the North; spring; bird's nest; Eskimos; building a wharf; sailing; using bilge pump; loading with lumber, possibly in Tuktoyaktuk in 1948; Boggild taking pictures in 1948; taking on water from pools in ice; and Boggild with sextant.~Reel 2 (circa 1948 to 1952): deck of St. Roch; Eskimos on foc'sle, likely in 1948; kayak; long sequence of walrus on ice floe, harpooning, water coloured blood red and loading on board; unloading cargo; life on shore; air force ceremony; Gordon Larsen; Dawson City; British Columbia interior; Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts; fair in B.C. interior; and RCMP inland duties. Reel 2A (circa 1944, 1945 and 1950): girls on board St. Roch; St. Roch sailing out of harbour (blue-green colour); Johnsen ?, Mackenzie ? and Diplock on deck in 1944; Larsen beside wheelhouse; no wheel (1944 configuration, shot in Halifax); ship sailing and decked with flags, shot in Halifax in 1944; Eskimos on board, likely in Pond Inlet; view of small settlement, with five houses and a sailing boat, possibly on Devon Island; Eskimos around wheelhouse; meat in rigging; Cashin, Mackenzie and a fedora-wearing crewmember skinning a polar bear; Russill [sic] with Eskimos on board; bluffs, possibly on Beechey Island; ice; St. Roch behind iceberg, possibly post-1944; seagulls; Cashin in chains and throwing the lead; shotlist at this point also mentions Monkey Island but context unclear; Cashin with fish (same footage as in Reel 1); shots of vegetation, land, seaplane, dogs, hunt, Monkey Island, ship, Eskimos on deck, boats, gardening, swimming, kayak paddling, baby and ship entering Vancouver Harbour (same as Reel 1); loading barrels; Larsen's daughter on board; St. Roch Panama trip; Air Cadets in Ottawa; RCMP Ride in Ottawa; St. Roch in the North after 1944; crew on board after 1944; and walrus hunt (hunt footage same as found in Reel 2).~Reel 3: Alexandra Fiord 1953; Ellesmere Island; Walrus [in] Resolute Bay; people on board (at this point footage is black-and-white and underexposed); seaplane; small RCMP loading craft prior to 1944; polar bear, sternwheeler, possibly in Yukon Territory; Eskimos onboard prior to 1944; at dock; Vancouver; ship with sails up in very rough seas; whaling station; whale skinning; on ice floes; stranded reindeer being helped on board; Hudson Bay Company post (colour footage resumes at this point); Fort Chimo Eskimos; Pelly Bay Mission; Fort Cambridge in winter; and Air Cadets (same footage as in Reel 2).~Reel 5 (1940 to 1942, 1944 and 1930s): dog team being made up; St. Roch in ice in background, likely from 1940 to 1942; digging out the ship; Chartrand ?; fishing; digging out the stern of the ship pre-1944; side view of ship locked in the ice; view of deck; taking off the protective winter tarp; fishing; priest with long black beard, at service at cairn (possibly Chartrand's burial); St. Roch in broken seas prior to 1944; dogs; polar bear swimming; Eskimos on board; Eskimo on kayak; St. Roch sailing past bluffs; HBC post; Eskimos; and costumes; Mackenzie, Peters and Andreasen at Franklin Monument on Beachey Island in 1944; at the stone cache; Kellet's Cache; Dealey Island; bluffs, possibly on Beachey Island (overexposed); walrus; chains; large stone cache; Peters inspecting the barrels; cairn erected by the Captain of HMS Resolute on Dealey Island; five houses and small fishing vessel (same location as shown in Reel 2A); Eskimos on board (see Reel 2A); meat in rigging (see Reel 2A); two men walking on gang plank; fishing vessel; St. Roch in ice prior to 1944; St. Roch with load of walrus pre-1944; in ice field; airplane; pre-1944 footage of dogs in scow and general view of boat deck; whale; scenery; settlement; Eskimos; Eskimo dance; breaking through ice; crew; dog with hat on; dogs on deck; view of foc'sle from above; deck house pre-1944; phony fight on deck; horseplay; and Larsen.~Reel 6 (circa 1940, 1945-1946 and 1944): black-and-white film of St. Roch with a smaller vessel; frozen in; pre-1944 footage of old wheelhouse; deck from crowsnest; sailing; dogs; pre-1944 footage of stern from above, including boats; Eskimos; dogs; boxing match with deck; with sails up; and Eskimos. Colour film of seaplane; HBC post; walrus hunt; black-and-white film of walrus hunt; walrus on ice floes; walrus being hauled on board; view of St. Roch (see Reel 1), Eskimo children (see Reel 1); snowmobiles; St. Roch frozen in; women on board likely during winter of 1945-1946; 1944 sequences same as Reel 2A; skinning a polar bear (see Reel 2A); Cashin at the door; Eskimos on board and meat hanging in rigging (see Reel 2A); Eskimos, cliffs and more Eskimos.~Reel 7, circa the 1930s and 1948: black-and-white film of seagulls; loading the ship; family pictures prior to 1944; cairn; wrecked ship; spring run-off; Larsen with sextant; getting water from pools on the ice; using the winch on board; St. Roch frozen in, prior to 1944; digging out the ship from the ice; polar bears; life in the North; St. Roch frozen in, prior to 1944; loading and unloading the ship with the help of army personnel, after 1944, probably in 1948; view of dory and wheelhouse; loading the ship; pilot at the wheel at Monkey Island; view of ship with Biggild's device visible, in 1948; gyro; dogs; Eskimo baby being nursed; Eskimos around superstructure; ice; islands, cliffs (possibly Alaska) and whale.
