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At the Autumn River Camp
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Filmmaker Name:
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Quentin Brown
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Film Length:
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59 min
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Film Year:
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1967
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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1960s
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Series:
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Netsilik Eskimo series
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Secondary Creator:
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ethnographic direction by Asen Balikci
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Arctic
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At the Autumn River Camp
Part 1 (color, 26 min) It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river valley. The geese are gone but some musk-ox are seen. The man makes a toy sleigh from the jawbones of a caribou and hitches it to a puppy. Next day the women gather stocks of moss for the lamp and the fire. The men fish through the ice with spears. The woman cooks fish while the men cache the surplus. Then the family eats in the karmak.
Part 2 (color, 33 min)
The men build an igloo and the household goods are moved in. They begin the complicated task of making a sleigh, using the skins from the tent, frozen fish, caribou antlers and sealskin thong. The woman works at a parka, using more caribou skin, and the children play. Now the sled is ready to load and soon the family is heading downriver to the coast.
About the Netsilik Eskimo series
These films reveal the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation. The Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigors of the Arctic year.
The filming was done during the summers of 1963 and 1964 and in the late winter of 1965 under the ethnographic direction of Dr. Asen Balikci of the University of Montréal, assisted by Guy Mary-Rousseliere, O.M.I., both anthropologists of wide Arctic experience. Quentin Brown was Producer-Director, and Kevin Smith the Executive Producer for the series. A minimum of cultural reconstruction was required during the filming; the Netsilik families readily agreed to live in the old way once more and showed considerable aptitude in recalling and representing the earlier ways of life.
At the Autumn River Camp
Directed by
Quentin Brown
Produced by
Kevin Smith
Cinematography by
Richard Bergman
Film Editing by
Elvin Carini
Jack Hirschfeld
Sound Department
Jacques Drouin
Malca Gillson
Ken Pagé
Don Wellington
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