[Henry Briggs Nature Series] Arctic Adventure, Part 1

Can DescriptionsBriggs footage originally shot on 16mm film. // Briggs gives running narration throughout.

AbstractBriggs' voiceover of travel to Edmonton, Canada, beginning at the Montreal railway station; views from the train of the farmland; on to Great Slave Lake by plane, with aerial views of the land below; views of the Red River, and Yellow Knife; views of his dog Lady, crated for travel, as she is delivered from the plane; views of Yellow Knife; photographing at midnight is as good as midday; foliage is observed including spruce, white birch, Juniper, dandelions, and others; a hardware store is visited; family gardens are observed; a sign painter creates a mural on the side of a gas station; home sites are observed; Old Yellow Knife, an original trading post, is visited and the native population is observed; on-coming bug season is noted; dogs' lives are observed; there is a week-long wait before the weather would allow travel on a pontoon plane to even more remote locations; once in the air, there are many views above the lake, still icy is spots; a stop in Fort Reliance for fuel delivered from barrels by hand pump; frost boils are observed from the air; Helen Falls is observed; landing 500 miles from the nearest people; loading the canoes for river travel; the tundra in summer is observed; paddling to an island for safe shelter from grizzly bears overnight; fishing and bugs are noted; muskox are observed among the spruce thicket; birds and eggs are spied; flowers are described including mounding cranberry, poppy, and azalea; cliff swallows are observed; fishing for trout in the eddy of a waterfall; a brown grizzly bear fishes along the opposite river bank; a blond grizzly bear is observed; waterfowl are described; a Sand hill crane is noted; bug troubles are observed; end of part 1 is abrupt;

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