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1914 - Whaling, USA: Bowhead Hunting in the Arctic; Or, the Cruise of the Whaler "Herman" R5 of 5

Reel Number: 220507-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914,1910s

Country: Russia,USA

Location: Arctic,EAst Cape,Kings Island,Siberia

TC Begins: 23:22:42

TC Ends: 23:33:29

Duration: 00:10:47

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1914 - Arctic, USA - Whaler Herman After Searching For Karluk (not seen) Intertitle: “At East Cape we pick up another survivor, Captain Bartlett’s native guide”. 23:22:50 Pan l. to r. w/ Husky dog teams pulling sledges across snow; arrive at 3-masted steam whaler ship. Man waiting shakes hands w/ Inuit in fur parka, MCU. 23:23:29 Flash intertitle: “Natives welcoming us on arrival at East Cape”. Eskimos, men & children dancing on ship’s deck. 23:23:53 Intertitle: “Natives loading up sleds with purchases and returning to East Cape. 23:23:57 High Angle / HA men on snow loading four sleds. LS sleds leaving across brok”en rough ice. 23:24:08 Intertitle: “Heading directly toward the midnight sun; open water”. 23:24:15 Bowsprit of whaling ship Herman sailing towards sun & open water. 23;24:33 Intertitle: “Hunting party sighted in the distance, adrift on an ice floe”. 23:24:41 LS man beside tent waving flag on floating ice floe. 23:24:54 Interitle: “Landing is made on the floe & one man is discovered sick in tent is conveyed to the ship.” 23:25:05 HA whaleboat rowed to floe; four men on ice, sick man treated w/ bottle of ? & carried to rowboat. Men & natives row towards ship. 23:26:34 Intertitle: “We call at Kings Island. Picture shows village on side of steep cliff”. 23:26:41 Tilt up village on stilts along cliff. MS w/ skins, kayaks hanging from framework. Rear shot of women watching from outside of house; MS dogs. People climb from beach to houses. CU elderly man in parka. MS woman & children posing. Natives shaking hands on shipboard. 23:27:55 Natives selling furs to men on shipboard as others watch. 23:28:12 Men cutting & eating whale (?) blubber / meat on ship’s deck. 23:28:24 Natives arriving & climbing on board ship. 23:29:04 Man buys / pays for white furs draped over his arm (or?) from Inuit. 23:29:22 Intertitle: “Checking up the skins after the trading is finished.” 23:29:26 Deck of ship piled w/ stacks of furs, men in parkas moved bundles of furs. 23:29:43 Flash intertitle: “Last glimpse of midnight sun.” Sun on horizon’s water edge. 23:30:01 Man in slicker at ship’s wheel. Flash title: “Stormy Weather.” Waves over deck & sailors trying to stand up. Tilt up mast to dark smoke out of ship’s stack, upper sails unfurled. View of ship rolling in heavy sea. Man flailing arms to keep warm; other men in helping man in platform suspended over ship’s side & trying to lift or secure it. 23:31:33 Intertitle: “The pressure of the ice pack against the shore piles the ice up in large ridges, and by sprint it is all frozen into one solid mass.” 23:31:44 POV thru ship’s rigging moving past icebergs (?). View from shore (?) of ship w/ sails furled moving past iceberg / floe. 23:32:22 View from top of mast to deck in good weather, sunshine. Men pacing on deck below. 23:32:39 View of deck in storm w/ stern & waves rising & lowering. GOOD storm scene. 23:33:10 Intertitle: “Home again”. Shot from shore surf breaking past jetty onto beach below Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California. Arctic Sailing Ship; 1910s; Cold Weather; Storms; Ethnic; Hardships; Trading; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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