The Smile of the Walrus
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.79
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content: Matanuska-Susitna School District educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 792 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film, directed by Philippe Cousteau, is from the series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau". The film follows the walrus in its annual migration to the Arctic Sea and includes interviews with Eskimo leaders and the former Secretary of the Interior, Walter J. Hickle at Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska) who explain the importance of the Walrus to Eskimo lifeways. The film also shows Cousteau's crew rearing an orphaned pup.