Scientific Expedition Into The Great Arctic

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Canada's Northern Islands are the object of watchful care by the Dominion Government...In the summer of 1922 an expedition was sent into these Arctic regions for the purpose of survey, scientific research, and the establishment of Police Posts, Customs Houses and Post Offices at various points....This film, which is the first of a series, deals with the voyage from Quebec to Baffin Island.; Stalled in the ice; Hunting and killing a polar bear; Good footage of icebergs and ice floes; First Nations people; The intricacies of the White Man's Jazz held no terrors for the Eskimo maidens!