Eskimos: Winter in Western Alaska, 1950
Channel: Lilyana Millutin
Date: 2021-01-04

"Eskimos: Winter in Western Alaska," a film by Frederick and Sara Machetanz, produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films (Public Domain), documents typical activities of an Inuit family surviving in Western Alaska prior to Westernization. 

The film depicts the Inuit's dependence upon fish as a food supply and illustrates traditional ways of obtaining fish, including ice fishing and trapping fish, obtaining water, seal hunting, and challenges of drying clothes in 30-degrees Celsius-below-zero weather.

(A. I. Film Gallery--American Indian Film Gallery)