Alaska - A Silent Teaching Film

Year Published: 1929

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Description:

This film titled “Alaska - A Silent Teaching Film'' is copyrighted 1929 and contains educational footage in black-and-white and sepia, and displays Alaska as a country of mountains, glaciers, salmon fishing, whale hunting, and agriculture. The film is distributed by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, Inc., who was the top producer and distributor of educational films for schools and libraries from many decades in the 20th Century.

*Disclaimer* This film describes the Alaska natives as Eskimos, which is a dated term. Indigenous Alaskans prefer the term ‘Inuit’.

“Alaska - A Silent Teaching Film '' title banner and credits (00:08). Scenes views of water and mountains (00:15). Alaskan agriculture scenes (00:25). Informational text overlay (00:33). A sailing ship (00:40). A map of North America, Alaska and the pacific ocean (00:48). Informational text overlay (01:12). Scenic views an Alaskan glacier (01:17). A ship sailing with passengers aboard (01:22). Ice crashed into the sea from a glacier (01:48). Informational text overlay (02:05). Hoses are used to spray water on soil (02:09) in search of gold (02:34). Industrial mining machinery (02:40). Informational text overlay (03:16). A stamp mill (03:21). Informational text overlay (03:33). Views of Alaska’s fishing industry (03:38). Salmon fishing (03:47). Informational text overlay (04:23). Map of Alaska and the Pribilof Islands (04:28). The seals living on the Pribilof Islands (04:37). Informational text overlay (05:29). Views of the sealskin industry (05:35). Informational text overlay (05:58). A sailing ship hunts whales with harpoons (06:00). A dead whale is pulled onto land (06:13). Fishermen stand on its mounts as it’s dragged (06:34). The whale’s skin and blubber is cut off (06:49) and cut into smaller pieces (07:15). Informational text overlay (07:31). An Alaska native family is emptying fish from a kayak on the beach (07:36). A native woman is weaving fish onto string (07:56). A mother and her child (08:05). Children (08:15). Women and children (08:24). Informational text overlay (08:43). Alaska natives dancing traditionally (08:47). Informational text overlay (09:07). Reindeer imported from Siberia (09:14). Informational text overlay (09:33). School children are doing physical activities (09:39). They are reading in a classroom (09:48). They are taught how to sew by hand and machine (09:54), how to bake bread (10:06), how to build from wood (10:28). Informational text overlay (10:52). A map portraying the arctic circle, the capital of Alaska ‘Juneau’, and Alaska’s 58° latitude, which aligns with Edinburgh, Stockholm, and Copenhagen’s latitude in Northern Europe (10:57). A mountain and a town at the foot of the mountain (11:24). Footage of the town (11:43). A farm (12:02). A child and many chickens (12:09). Cows (12:22). Pigs and a farmer (12:33). Informational text overlay (12:45). A potato farmer walks in his potato field (12:50). He harvests a potato bushel (12:58). He harvests a cabbage head while his wife and son watch (13:12). Wheat is harvested by horse-pulled harvesters (13:18) and the harvest is piled (13:27). A farmer drives a tractor through a forest pulling logs of wood (13:36). The logs are pushed into a river (13:54). Informational text overlay (14:02). A steam train moves across a bridge (14:07) and through the mountainous landscapes of Alaska (14:16). Scenic views of the sea (14:19).

Complete Record: This film titled “Alaska - A Silent Teaching Film'' is copyrighted 1929 and contains educational footage in black-and-white and sepia, and displays Alaska as a country of mountains, glaciers, salmon fishing, whale hunting, and agriculture. The film is distributed by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, Inc., who was the top producer and distributor of educational films for schools and libraries from many decades in the 20th Century. *Disclaimer* This film describes the Alaska natives as Eskimos, which is a dated term. Indigenous Alaskans prefer the term ‘Inuit’. “Alaska - A Silent Teaching Film '' title banner and credits (00:08). Scenes views of water and mountains (00:15). Alaskan agriculture scenes (00:25). Informational text overlay (00:33). A sailing ship (00:40). A map of North America, Alaska and the pacific ocean (00:48). Informational text overlay (01:12). Scenic views an Alaskan glacier (01:17). A ship sailing with passengers aboard (01:22). Ice crashed into the sea from a glacier (01:48). Informational text overlay (02:05). Hoses are used to spray water on soil (02:09) in search of gold (02:34). Industrial mining machinery (02:40). Informational text overlay (03:16). A stamp mill (03:21). Informational text overlay (03:33). Views of Alaska’s fishing industry (03:38). Salmon fishing (03:47). Informational text overlay (04:23). Map of Alaska and the Pribilof Islands (04:28). The seals living on the Pribilof Islands (04:37). Informational text overlay (05:29). Views of the sealskin industry (05:35). Informational text overlay (05:58). A sailing ship hunts whales with harpoons (06:00). A dead whale is pulled onto land (06:13). Fishermen stand on its mounts as it’s dragged (06:34). The whale’s skin and blubber is cut off (06:49) and cut into smaller pieces (07:15). Informational text overlay (07:31). An Alaska native family is emptying fish from a kayak on the beach (07:36). A native woman is weaving fish onto string (07:56). A mother and her child (08:05). Children (08:15). Women and children (08:24). Informational text overlay (08:43). Alaska natives dancing traditionally (08:47). Informational text overlay (09:07). Reindeer imported from Siberia (09:14). Informational text overlay (09:33). School children are doing physical activities (09:39). They are reading in a classroom (09:48). They are taught how to sew by hand and machine (09:54), how to bake bread (10:06), how to build from wood (10:28). Informational text overlay (10:52). A map portraying the arctic circle, the capital of Alaska ‘Juneau’, and Alaska’s 58° latitude, which aligns with Edinburgh, Stockholm, and Copenhagen’s latitude in Northern Europe (10:57). A mountain and a town at the foot of the mountain (11:24). Footage of the town (11:43). A farm (12:02). A child and many chickens (12:09). Cows (12:22). Pigs and a farmer (12:33). Informational text overlay (12:45). A potato farmer walks in his potato field (12:50). He harvests a potato bushel (12:58). He harvests a cabbage head while his wife and son watch (13:12). Wheat is harvested by horse-pulled harvesters (13:18) and the harvest is piled (13:27). A farmer drives a tractor through a forest pulling logs of wood (13:36). The logs are pushed into a river (13:54). Informational text overlay (14:02). A steam train moves across a bridge (14:07) and through the mountainous landscapes of Alaska (14:16). Scenic views of the sea (14:19).