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Arctic Canada caught on 1919 silent film (w/video)
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| January 20, 2012
| Chris Nikkel
Posted on 01/21/2012 1:38:43 PM PST by decimon
One of the world's early documentaries featured unique footage of the lives of Arctic fur trappers in 1919. After long being forgotten, it's now been restored for modern audiences in Canada, including communities descended from those featured in the silent film.
In July 1919, the RMS Nascopie departed Montreal. It carried supplies bound for Arctic fur trade posts.
But the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) ice-breaker had extra cargo on its annual trip. A film crew is on board.
The ship headed north. As they travelled, a cameraman filmed the Nascopie crashing through ice floes.
When the ship anchored, he went overboard, trudging across the ice with a tripod cradled in his arms. A second camera rolled from the deck, recording it all.
The film crew had orders from the HBC headquarters in London. They were to make a film capturing the company's workings and commercial land holdings, holdings that once covered one twelfth of the earth's surface.
But the HBC wanted rid of the land, and were looking for people to settle on it.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: arctic; climate; godsgravesglyphs; greatwhitenorth; rmsnascopie
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posted on
01/21/2012 1:38:47 PM PST
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/21/2012 1:39:42 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Seems like they had some good lookin’, happy dogs.
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posted on
01/21/2012 2:54:03 PM PST
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Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Seems like they had some good lookin, happy dogs.Happy they weren't eaten like Amundsen's dogs. Or maybe they were.
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posted on
01/21/2012 3:51:17 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
A Canadian friend once told me about a Newbie who asked what “HBC” stood for, as he had seen it almost everywhere he went. The laconic answer was “Here Before Christ”.
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posted on
01/21/2012 5:42:56 PM PST
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: Oatka
A Canadian friend once told me about a Newbie who asked what HBC stood for, as he had seen it almost everywhere he went. The laconic answer was Here Before Christ.I don't think I'd guess Hudson Bay Company. That's kinda long ago.
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:12:33 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:38:41 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/21/2012 8:52:49 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
To: decimon
Always makes me chuckle when people talk about "big business" as if it was something new. Hudson Bay Company and Dutch East India Company along with other were really Big Business.
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posted on
01/21/2012 9:05:42 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(In the good times praise His name, In the bad times do the same, In everything give thanks)
To: SunkenCiv; Darnright; ApplegateRanch; Berlin_Freeper; SolitaryMan; golux; SteamShovel; Bockscar; ...
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posted on
01/21/2012 9:07:33 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Always makes me chuckle when people talk about "big business" as if it was something new. Hudson Bay Company and Dutch East India Company along with other were really Big Business.That gets into what corporations are supposed to be about. And that's a discussion we in the US should probably engage.
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posted on
01/21/2012 9:16:34 PM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
That gets into what corporations are supposed to be about. 18% annual dividends?
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posted on
01/21/2012 9:23:31 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(In the good times praise His name, In the bad times do the same, In everything give thanks)
To: decimon
I don't think I'd guess Hudson Bay Company. That's kinda long ago.The feeling up there was that HBC WAS HBC. :-)
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posted on
01/22/2012 8:59:31 AM PST
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: decimon; mickie
This film will give PETA viewers real heartburn.....all those stacks and stacks of fur pelts ready for shipping.
Those aborigine Eskimos were greedy, profit-seekers, the evil one-percenters of their day, their tribe and their habitat, weren't they!
Leni
To: decimon
>>When the completed film premiered across Western Canada and in London, it was accompanied by a live orchestra.<<
If you ever have the opportunity to see a silent film accompanied by a live orchestra.... take advantage of the extraordinary experience.
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posted on
01/22/2012 9:30:53 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(When I was a chiId was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it)
To: decimon
Are you saying, eating sled dogs under these circumstances, makes these men, somehow evil or inhuman?
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posted on
01/22/2012 9:34:19 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(When I was a chiId was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it)
Just an update, thanks again decimon, wow, 11 years.
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posted on
01/24/2023 8:34:12 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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