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1 [Time-lapse images of sea ice movement at Barrow 1975 - 1976] These are time lapse images of sea ice at Barrow, Alaska. See also AAF-11495 and AAF-11496, which contain images and information related to this study. This reel was made up of eight smaller reels of film spliced together onto one reel. Note that four original reels are each followed by duplicate... 1975-1976
2 [Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Edna MacLean] In this episode of Alaska On Line, Red Boucher interviews Edna MacLean, president of Ilisagvik College, about higher education in the arctic. The program was recorded on December 28, 1996. 1996
3 [Annabeth Hanlon collection 4] This footage shows a Wien Stinson airplane landing on ice in Anaktuvuk[?], Eskimo men ice fishing, and a Wien airplane departing. Footage featuring Eskimo life in Barrow includes school children in a Barrow classroom, elders weaving baleen baskets, a dog sled, an early tracked vehicle made from a... 1937-1965
4 [1947 Nalukataq whale feast at Barrow] Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about these films is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: “Barrow, Nulakatuk, 1947. After a successful whaling season they have a Nulakatuk celebration which is to celebrate the parting of the whales soul so...
From the Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
From the William W. Bacon III collection. APR Collection Number 2015-203.
AAF-20,079 transferred in 2016 by Reflex Technologies of Burbank, California, to Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and Mac-format external hard drive. Some light and color corrections may have been applied to Blu-ray disc and DVD by Reflex Technologies.
Filmmaker's original labeling scheme has film AAF-20,079 numbered as Bacon 17, and titled “1947 Nulakatuk Whale Feast, Barrow.” Film contains scenes of whale and muktuk being distributed at the Nalukataq whale feast at Barrow, people eating and celebrating, blanket toss, men in military uniforms,...
1947 1947
5 Kim Muller and other residents of Barrow are interviewed by Paula Schuler Kim Muller and other residents of Barrow are interviewed by Paula Schuler about the impacts of the Barrow & Alcohol Research Study. PT. 2-3.
Chinook program numbers: 8011, 8012. Program starts 24 seconds into recording.
6 James Nageak is interviewed by Karen McPherson in Barrow, Alaska in 1983 Whaling PT. 2. James Mumialuk Nageak, a whaling captain in Barrow, talks about Barrow being one of nine villages in Alaska that hunt the bow head whale, preparing for whaling, getting a whaling crew and outfit together, and women's role in whaling.
Chinook program numbers: 8327. Program starts 46 seconds into recording.
1983
7 Marie Adams and several whaling captains are interviewed by Karen McPherson in Barrow, Alaska Whaling PT. 3. Interview with several whaling captions and Marie Adams, Executive Director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.
Chinook program numbers: 8328. Program starts 56 seconds into recording.
8 Karen McPherson talks about whaling in Barrow, Alaska in 1983 Karen McPherson examines whaling in Barrow, old methods and new innovations.
Chinook program numbers: 8326. Program starts 49 seconds into recording.