Summary

Perils of the North - b&w documentary w/ sound narration about Arctic scientific expedition led by Harold McCracken to Siberia & Alaska for American Museum of Natural History - view of two islands, one belonging to Russia the other to the United States - Bering Strait - Eskimo or Inuit children in front of tent dressed in furs - ceremonial dance for camera with native costumes - musician beats drum with stick - cu's faces of kids - rough sea - sailor in rigging - Captain Robert Bartlett in heavy coat with sextant - ship in ice floes - polar bear swims near ship - large island - dead polar bear strung up on deck - sailor in crows nest - pan herd of walrus on ice floe - walrus jump off - man shoots at walrus from ship - small boat to ice floe - explorers shoot walrus on ice - men examine dead walrus - c/u prow of ship cuts through ice - men measure walrus carcass - sunset over ice floes - exploration - wildlife