Refine Your Search

Arctic Ocean 1938 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 3544 results
Commercial fishing industry of Japan before World War II

Animated map of fishing grounds around Japan that provide one fourth of the world's catch. Movement of the seasonal catch is tracked as it moves Northward during the year. Men and women engaged in commercial fishing, gathering in nets teeming with fish. Fishing boats plying waters of an inland sea. Fishing boats moored along the shores. Larger seagoing fishing boats leaving to operate along the coast of Honshu. Fishermen letting out nets from these boats and using cable winches to retrieve them. Views of refrigerated Japanese fishing ships that also freeze their catches, operatiing in the Siberian maritime provinces and in Alaskan and Arctic waters. Fishing boats, operating before World War 2, are seen pulling crabs aboard. View inside a floating cannery ship where salmon and crabmeat are being canned for export to places like the U.S.A. Closeup of a can displaying "ICEBOUNDBRAND" and text reading: " World Renowned Floating Cannery Pack Fresh from the Deep Sea Waters of Northern Japan. Net contents 13ounces. SELECTED CRABMEAT." Japanese wading in a river, and using trained cormorants, to catch fish. View of fisherman taking fish from his cormorant and placing them into a large jug. view of edible seaweed being harvested and laid out in the sun, in racks. Animated illustration of Japanese man and items included in his dinner of rice, soybean, fish, sea slugs, sea urchins, octopus, lily bulbs, bamboo shoots, bean curd and pickled fruits and vegetables, accompanied by a little saki (rice wine).

Location: Japan
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025097
The crew of the whaler Herman rigs out the ice breaker enroute to Herschel Island.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler enroute to Herschel Island. Captain Pedersen on the bridge. He looks through a telescope for an opening in the ice. Ice sheets. The crew rigs out the ice breaker. The ice breaker cuts through the ice sheet as the ship advances.

Location: Arctic Ocean
Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020855
Transatlantic air service is extolled 35 years after the Wright Brothers first flight. Howard Hughes takes off on round-the- world flight

Animated map shows sailing vessel leaving Coast of United States heading to the British Isles. Next, the Cunard-White Star ocean liner, S.S. Aquitania, is shown underway in the Atlantic, with note that the ship crossing only takes four days. Animated map shows America and Europe "moving closer together" as a result. Noting that an airplane flew from New York to Paris in 16 hours and 38 minutes, Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special aircraft, heavily loaded with fuel, is seen making a difficult takeoff from the short (3500 foot) runway at Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, on July 10th, 1938, headed to Paris, France on first leg of its round-the-world flight. Glimpse of the aircraft overhead as it sets course for Newfoundland on a Great Circle route to Paris.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1938, July 10
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027430
Documentary tilted 'History of Aviation' depicts benefits to mankind brought by development of means of travel, United States.

Documentary tilted 'History of Aviation' depicts benefits to mankind brought by discovery of aviation. A group of travelers on horses and bullock carts, in hot and dusty deserts travels from California to New York. A railroad train runs on railroad between California and New York. An airplane flies in sky above skyscraper tall buildings of New York City, over Manhattan Island. Animated map shows ship sail towards Europe. A cruise ship liner underway in the ocean towards Europe. Howard Hughes airplane takes off in New York, bound for Paris, France. It is Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973) seen in aerial views over Manhattan Island New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City visible. (Filmed on July 14, 1938).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036818
Crew of the whaler Herman hunt a Polar bear on Herschel Island.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Polar bear hunting on Herschel Island. A Polar bear eating a seal on an ice floe. He jumps into the water and swims towards the shore. The bear comes ashore and runs inward. The crew in boats follow him ashore. They shoot the bear. Men hold the bear's mouth open. The dead bear. The dead seal on the floe.

Location: Herschel Island Arctic Ocean
Date: 1915
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020856
New ship Mauretania arrives in New York on its maiden voyage.

New ocean liner RMS Mauretania (1938) arrives in New York on its maiden voyage. A small ship escorts Mauretania. Aerial view of the Mauretania. People on the ship and photographers click photos of the Captain of the ship. Many ships in New York harbor near the Mauretania. Captain using binoculars to view the scene. Scene in New York harbor from aboard ship of the Statue of Liberty and New York city. Close up view of steam coming out from one of the ship stacks. Aerial views of the Mauretania and Manhattan Island skyscrapers, and New York harbor.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1939, June 24
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034120
<< Previous | Page: 1 ... 4 5 6 ... 591 | Next >>