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Thule - Polareskimoernes Land (1943)

Thule - Polareskimoernes Land poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
14 min

How it feels

This is a Danish documentary from 1943 about the Polar Eskimos in Thule. It shows their daily activities like building tents, processing seal skins, making harpoon points from walrus tusks, hunting sea birds and walrus, building snow houses, and dog sledding.

observationalquietinformativeslow-pacedcoldearthydocumentary-stylefactual

What happens

Thule - Polareskimoernes Land er en film instrueret af Mogens Holm. Sommerteltet bygges - Behandling af sælskind - Forarbejdning af hvalrostand til harpunspidser - Fremstilling af fangstrem af remmesælens skind - Fangst af søkonger - Behandling af fangsten - Jagt på hvalros fra kajak - Bygning af et snehus - Kørsel med hundeslæde - En fanget hvalros slæbes på land - Hundene fodres. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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