AMERICAN CAN COMPANY. "ALASKA'S SILVER MILLIONS." Motion Picture Film; 1936. 1
The film, "Alaska's Silver Millions," was presented or funded by
the American Can Company in 1936. Commentary or narration of the film
was by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J., known as "The Glacier Priest."
The film was produced and edited by Beverly Jones, with photography by
Nicholas Cavalier and Father Hubbard.
The collection consists of a VHS videocassette copy of the black
and white sound motion picture film, "Alaska's Silver Millions." The 34
minute film begins with Father Hubbard's description of the three
different sections of Alaska: the Yukon, Southeastern Alaska, and the
Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. This description includes
maps and film footage of the following subjects: Hubbard's sled dog
team; an Inupiat woman catching tom cod through the ice; a reindeer
herd; the
Inside Passage;
Juneau; Alaska Juneau Gold Mine; a dairy farm; calving glaciers and
icebergs; the Valley of 10,000 Smokes; Shishaldin Volcano; and Aniakchak
Volcano. The subjects of the remainder of the film are the salmon runs
and salmon fishing and canning. Film footage in this part includes; maps
of the
Alaska salmon
runs; spawning salmon; salmon traps; salmon tenders; fishermen brailing
or emptying the traps; seine boats; and the cannery at False Pass on
Unimak Island. The cannery footage of the fish house and canning house
includes the following machinery: the iron chink, the filler, the
vacuum sealer,
washer, rackers (cooking trays), retorts (steam cookers), and labelers.
The film ends with footage of canned salmon being boxed and loaded into
cargo ships, and a farm in the Matanuska Valley.
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