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Walruses, 1958 - 1959

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104699

Scope and Contents

"Alaska footage for "Background for a baby walrus" 1959. Kodachrome original cuts"--Original box label. Footage of walrus hunt by Indigenous people, including footage of people skinning walrus, removing meat, and head. Includes footage a walrus being crated and put onto an Alaskan Airlines plane. Much of reel is documents Indigenous families without walruses in the frame. Aerial landscapes of Alaska and multiple shots of the planes transporting the walruses.

Dates

  • 1958 - 1959

Extent

1 film : Both; Silent; Positive Print; Base; 24 frames per second; Original Kodachrome and Dupe outtakes ; 16mm

19.5 minutes

700 feet (Media Diameter: 11 inches)

Language of Materials

English

General

Digitized in 2023 under the WCS Archives' Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.

Repository Details

Part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Repository

Contact:
WCS Library/Archives
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Bronx New York 10460 United States