page_title: Lost in the Arctic
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Lost in the Arctic / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Promotion of Lost in the Arctic on same reel ("split reel") with Noted Men, along with several other September releases by Selig Polyscope Company in 1911; published in the trade publication The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), September 16, 1911, p. 805.
context_page_description: Lost in the Arctic is a lost 1911 American silent drama film that portrayed the Inuit or "Eskimo" culture in the northern coastal area of Labrador. Directed by William V. Mong and produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, the "one-reeler" costarred Columbia Eneutseak, J. C. Smith, and also Mong. The film was not, as advertised by Selig and in trade publications in 1911, shot in the Arctic or even farther south in Labrador. It and another Selig release, The Way of the Eskimo, were produced at the same time in the same location in the United States, in Escanaba, Michigan. Both "Arctic" stories were filmed there in less than two weeks during the early winter months of 1911, staged along the frozen shoreline of Little Bay de Noc that connects to Lake Michigan.
  Released in September 1911, this 820-foot film was distributed on a "split-reel", attached on the same 1000-foot reel to an unrelated 180-foot "topical" short titled Noted Men. That accompanying film, which had a running time less than three minutes, offered "intimate views" of the vice president of the United States at that time as well as four other prominent national politicians.
context_section_description: William V. Mong as Davis, Arctic explorer
  Columbia Eneutseak [Smith] as "The Eskimo Orphan"
  J. C. Smith as Captain John Smith, Arctic explorer
  Zacharias Zad as "The Bear Hunter"
  Chief Opetek as chief of the tribe
  [Esther] Eneutseak [Smith], the chief's wife
  Pearytok as Inuit tribe member
  Lolituk as Inuit tribe member
  Autosig as Inuit tribe member
  Beasotuk as Inuit tribe member
  Magook as Inuit tribe member
  Tava as Inuit tribe member
caption: Promotion of Selig releases for September 1911, including Lost in the Arctic and its accompanying short Noted Men
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