Film shot during the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934. View from a YB-10 aircraft flying over snowy mountains in Alaska. Perspective of the cameraman inside the YB-10. Downward view of mountains covered in deep snow. Some mountains at lower elevations with streams flowing down their slopes. Cumulus clouds obscuring the ground and interfering with the photo-mapping mission for the photograpers. Cloud capped Mount McKinley (aka Denali) seen off the aircraft wing at a distance of 75 miles.
The Carpenter-Whitney Expedition in Alaska. Largest species of moose family, Kenai Moose spotted in a forest area. The moose walks into the bushes. H W Terhune, the Executive Game Commissioner of Alaska, with assistants, arrives by boat. The Commissioner inspects a large moose head along a lake.
Views of harbor at Ketchikan, Alaska, from deck of the "El Aquario," supply ship supporting the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska flight project in 1934. Camera pans across the harbor showing a steamship at dock and the settlement town of Ketchikan. A passenger steamship is seen with smoke from her stack, underway. A smaller steam ship underway. Crew members of the El Aquario, fish from her bow. One pulls in a small fish. Another one poses with a large fish. views of glassy calm waters from the El Aquario, underway after refueling at Ketchikan, followed by scenes as she moves into more open waters. Hills with snow on their tops.
Organizational chart reads CINCAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ALASKA at Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska. Arrow pinpoints AAC, Alaskan Air Command.
Map of Alaska at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. Arrow pinpoints Kodiak. Arrow pinpoints Elmendorf Air Force Base. A tag reads Arctic circle.
The SS Aleutian, flagship of the Alaska Steamship Line. Passengers appear small as they walk on the deck of this large ship. Some travelers sit under umbrellas. Others enjoy the sun. But all are dressed fairly warmly. A large smoke stack protrudes through the center of the deck. Masts and other timbers seem suited for loading and unloading freightl. A fishing boat makes way across a mirror-like bay. A powered fishing boat tows a line of 17 dinghies each having a mast for sail. View from high point on a wharf, of large fishing boats tied up at a cannery dock. Fishermen unloading a catch of salmon into a hole in the dock, where the fish enter a conveyer that moves them into the cannery processing area. There men use pikes to move and sort them. Next men are seen cleaning and fileting the fish by hand at work stations equipped with water supplies. They place the filets on trays above their work stations. Women are seen canning smaller pieces of fish and placing them into boxes. The fish are then processed by belt-driven machinery that packs and seals the finished cans that then pass by a quality control inspector. Final scene shows a building standing on many tall stilts, in the water. Several men stand on the nearby shore.
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