“Bear/Sheep Hunt” (1948) 16mm Film Home Movie, AK, Flight, Hike, Camp, Panos, VS

Film is well edited with title footage telling the story throughout the film. Great story of hunting buddies that hunt together every year, returning to their camp in the Alaska wilderness which needed to be repaired but the trio is undaunted and have it renovated in no time. In addition to posing with dead animals, the filmmaker captures a lot of the scenery and mountains of Alaska.

Filmmaker has inserted title frames describing the footage which is very helpful. He also included the kind of rifle and the range which the animals were shot.

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: some of the images of killing animals on the film may be disturbing to some viewers.

FILM CONDITION:

The film is in acceptable condition and ran smoothly on a manual thread Revere projector. There is streaking and has some watermarking on some of the title sections.

VINEGAR SYNDROME:

A-D strip indicates that the film is VS level 1.5. Film is currently in cold storage for preservation.

7” reel (approximately 14 min)

Rough timeline:

1 min 15 sec - hunters gather at plane for Cold Bay bear hunt, inside plane, flying over active volcano, Nackneck Lake airstrip

1 min 15 sec - bear path, Mount Shishalodin active volcano panoramic shot, Cathedral Valley, bears in valley

2 min 30 sec - bear kills, posing with dead bears

2 min 30 sec - start of sheep hunt, Rainbow Mountain, panoramic, arriving at old sheep camp on Riley Creek which is in bad shape, cooking/eating meal

2 min - Jarvis Creek, staying at camp during snow storm, posing in front of camp, panoramic of scenery around camp with Donnley Done in background

4 min - sheep on Jarvis Creek, sheep kills, posing with sheep

Please see photos to verify item condition. Sold as is.

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