The Glacier Priest
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (13 minutes, color sound; 468 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a biography of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., a Jesuit priest nicknamed "the glacier priest" who conducted and filmed many expeditions to Alaska over a 30 year period. His interest as an amateur volcanologist and geologist is shown through various trips to Alaskan sites including Taku Glacier, Aniakchik, and Valley of 10,000 Smokes. His relationship to the people is depicted by his dog sled trip to Holy Cross to bring needed medicine to combat a flu epidemic, scenes of ice fishing and preparing for an umiaq trip with the King Islanders, and scenes of King Island village life. Film also includes his lecture tour undertaken to counteract the "myth" of a frozen Alaska and his Jubilee tour. Footage from ARCTIC SPRINGTIME, WINTER IN ESKIMO LAND, and ESKIMO TRAILS is used extensively.