[We Live in the Arctic - Reel 1]

AAF-16016

Constance Helmericks Papers collection

Bud Helmericks
Constance Helmericks

Bud Helmericks (Filmmaker)
Constance Helmericks (Filmmaker)

1947

United States

Detailed summary information for this film was provided by the filmmakers, Bud and Connie Helmericks – see a film archivist for full information. According to these notes, this film includes scenes of a Cessna 140 (the “Arctic Tern”) taking off from Tucson, Arizona; aerial views enroute to Alaska; Grand Prairie, Alberta; aerial views of Hughes, Alaska; Brooks Range mountains; landing at Takahula Lake; Connie and Bud at their log cabin at Takahula Lake; snowshoeing and seeing a “snow doughnut” that has rolled down from the mountain; Bud splitting wood and Connie collecting water; ice fishing on Takahula Lake while sunbathing; planting a garden; Connie climbing Takahula Peak; kayaking on the Alatna River; an airplane flight 300 miles north to the Arctic Ocean; cooking a meal of caribou and cornmeal along the Arctic Ocean; the village of Paulatuk in Canada; Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island; a power schooner (the “Tudlik”) traveling from Banks Land; Inuit hunters cooking caribou in northern Canada; Lakes Peter and Schrader in Alaska; and the filmmakers, Bud and Connie.

moving image

film

16mm film; color; silent

Actuality (B-roll)

Airplanes
Mountains
Lakes & ponds
Log cabins
Snowshoes & snowshoeing
Fishing
Sunbathing
Kayaks
Reindeer
Reindeer (food)
Schooners

1940-1949

North America

United States

Alaska

Alaska
Outside -- Not in Alaska
Northern Alaska
Interior Alaska

Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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