The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-21
NANUK IN PORT SUNDAY; MOVIE
 CROWD ABOARD
Whaling Scenes for "Es. kimo'' Taken Capt.
 L. Lane in Command

The three -masted auxiliary schooner Nanuk which arrived in Juneau and tied up at the Pacific Coast Dock yesterday forenoon at II o'clock, is the Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer vessel in command of Capt. Louis Lane, which has been talk ing whaling sequences for that company's new picture, Eskimo, D in the Arctic Ocean.
 The expedition went north last summer to Teller, on Boring Strait, where a complete Arctic village was built for the filming of the picture. During the winter, actors were flown in and out by air plane as their sequences were filmed None of the stars are well-known, but the nature of the picture, and the feature of genu- ineness achieved by actually talk ing the scenes in the north have led the etro-Goldwyn- Mayer company to decide to send it out as the first 1883 road show.
 Captain Doubles
 Capt. Lane has been doubling for Ray Wise, the principal char acter, who by the way, was born on KotZebue Sound. After a great deal of difficulty in getting ac- ceptable pictures of a fight with a whale. the company sent to San Francisco for Capt. Lane, who is a bar pilot there, to go north. which he did, on the first trip of the Victoria.
 He took immediate command of the Nanuk, and from his twenty years of experience as a whaling vessel skipper. was able to get the sort of pictures desired. The Ma nuk spent most of the present summer in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where she not only ran the risk of cracking up in the ice, but also being con- flScated Dy the RuSSlanS.
 Whale HarpoOned
 Several good pictures were ob- tained before the prize appeared. Capt. Lane was able to get har- poon into whale that filled the bill perfectly, and which took to his part like a circus elephant. After he was harpooned, the whale did all the things he was supposed to do for the benefit of Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer, sounding at the right time and barely missing the boats with his flukes, running for five hours with the boats in tow attacking them to destroy his tor mentors, and finally making 8-foot jumps out of the water with two boats firmly fastened to his back, during all of which time the cam eras were able to get good shots, as the weather was very clear.
 Bad Weather
 When the negatives were sent in to Hollywood, the company ex pressed itself as so fully satisfied that they radioed back for some more sequences to be used in later film The Nanuk has been in Icy Straits for the past week or so trying to get these pie lures, but nasty weather finally forced them to give up.
 The outfit came to Juneau for supplies, and when the party left here at midnight last night, it headed out through Stephens Pas sage for the south end of Bar anof Island, where an attempt to get views of the sperm and right whales there will be made.
 Last winter, the film company maintained cast of more than forty actors at Teller, with as many as a hundred natives em- ployed at once part of the time. More than $890,O00 have been spent already in the filming of the picture.
 "The people of Alaska do not realize the benefits to be derived from the making of such pictures in Alaska" said Capt. Lane, in commenting on the cost of the picture. Most of the money spent by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on this expedition went into the hands of Alaskan business men. The sum of $70,000 went for airplane trans portation alone. More companies should be induced to come up here to make their picture. When you