"Alaska's Silver Millions" (1936) Reel America - Glaciers Preview

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Alaska weekend on C-SPAN:

Saturday at 10pm ET & Sunday at 4:30pm ET WATCH FOUR documentaries about Alaska.

"Alaska's Silver Millions" (1936) - This travelogue and educational film is hosted and narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard, a geologist and Jesuit priest who popularized Alaskan wilderness from the 1920s through the 1950s through lectures, magazine articles and films. The film is presented courtesy the Library of Congress and National Film Preservation Foundation.

ALSO SCREENING: "Eskimo Hunters in Northwestern Alaska" (1949) The lives of indigenous people living in the village of Point Hope on the remote Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska are detailed through the narration of a young boy.

· "Alaska Centennial" (1967) The U.S. Army produced this film to mark the centennial of the Alaska Purchase. It includes a reenactment of the October 18, 1867, ceremony in Sitka, Alaska, when the Russian flag was lowered and the American flag raised to mark the territory’s transfer. Alaska Centennial is an episode from the U.S. Army’s Big Picture series.

· (Saturday Only) "Alaska Highway" (1944) This U.S. Army Signal Corps film documents the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.