Alaska Film Archives

[Waymon Vest collection films 3]
[Waymon Vest collection films 3]
AAF-13897 is from a film identified by the filmmaker as: white grizzly bear on North Slope, North Slope scenes, and Kenai Peninsula scenes circa 1970-1972. The full 15-minute reel was made from five smaller reels labeled by the filmmaker as follows: grizzly bear - North Slope 1970, moose sheep - Kenai Peninsula Alaska; cat train Porter; good one Slope; Brooks Range from airplane Alaska; Herc C-130. Scenes on Alaska’s North Slope include a "blonde" or nearly-white-colored grizzly bear and oil exploration activities including a cat train, helicopter, Pilatus Porter airplane, tracked vehicles moving across snowy terrain, C-130 Hercules airplane, and a helicopter. The following information was received from the filmmaker: At about 2 minutes and 40 seconds into the full film reel is a scene of Portage Glacier as seen from the road in 1970; beginning at about 3 minutes and 30 seconds into the reel are barges frozen in the Arctic Ocean; and at about 11 minutes and 40 seconds into the reel, the camera zooms in to a scene of Mt. Susitna, also known as the “Sleeping Lady.”