Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt's Arctic Hunt
Cast & Crew
Capt. Frank E. Kleinschmidt
Capt. Frank E. Kleinschmidt
Capt. Frank E. Kleinschmidt
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Synopsis
This documentary traces the experiences of Capt. Frank E. Kleinschmidt during an expedition to the Arctic. Scenes of Eskimo life include their trading and bartering practices.
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Capt. Frank E. Kleinschmidt
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One source lists the film's length as seven reels. According to Moving Picture World, the film showed was shown in Washington, D.C. before members of Congress "who were then legislating or trying to legislate upon Alaskan affairs. The captain's information in motion pictures was greatly valued by the legislators, who freely declared that nothing less than a trip to a long residence in the territory could have supplied them with the facts recorded by the captain's pictures." Moving Picture World noted, "The huts of a few Eskimos hanging to the barren rocks of a little island had never been photographed before and make an interesting spectacle."
