At the Autumn River Camp

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Filmmaker Name:	Quentin Brown
Film Length:	59 min
Film Year:	1967
Duration:	46-75 min
Decade:	1960s
Series:	Netsilik Eskimo series
Secondary Creator:	ethnographic direction by Asen Balikci
Color:	color
Region:	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.

other films in the Netsilik Eskimo series:

At the Caribou Crossing Place

At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

Jigging for Lake Trout

At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

Building a Kayak

Fishing at the Stone Weir

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