Arctic outpost
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An account of life in Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories, a tiny settlement on a wind-swept fiord of the Eastern Arctic. The town is a meeting place of Eskimo and white people, a trading and communications center whose influence is greater than its size. Documents the way of life of the inhabitants during the long Arctic winter and the short but beautiful summer.
Credits
- Directed by
- John Feeney
Complete catalog record
Life at the small settlement of Pangnirtung on eastern Baffin Island, where there is as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post, a Hudson’s Bay Company store, a mission hospital and a government school. The film presents on-the-spot accounts of the work of all of these. This is a shorter version of the film “Pangnirtung”.
Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q123304931 ↗ — country, credits
- 16mm Filmography editors — year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description
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