Eskimo (1933) - (Movie Clip) Walrus Hunt

Eskimo - (Original Trailer)

Director W.S. Van Dyke traveled to northwest Alaska for Eskimo (1933), using local Inuits to play the parts in the script.

Eskimo (1933) -- (Movie Clip) A Strange Primeval Creed

Opening from MGM and W.S. Van Dyke, a prologue playing on the director’s success with earlier exotic features (White Shadows In The South Seas, 1928, and Trader Horn, 1931), including an untrue claim about casting, but a graceful enough introduction of his leads, Ray Wise (here known as Ray “Mala,” his character’s name) and Lulu Wong Wing his wife, in Eskimo, 1933.

Eskimo (1933) -- (Movie Clip) One Has Been Wifeless Long?

Probably horrible but a significant plot point, Alaskan-born Ray Wise, who became known as Ray “Mala,” the name of his character in this picture, meets a fellow hunter who’s lost his wife, and graciously offers his own (Lulu Wong Wing as Aba), everyone en route to meet the white-man’s ship, W.S. Van Dyke directing on location in Northern Alaska, in Eskimo, 1933.