Word: igloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arena of investigation was a paneled dome, big as an igloo. Two soundless cinecameras rode on tracks up the sides of the dome to the top. Inside was a specially designed clinical crib with accessories. The crib was in focus whatever the position of the cameras. The dome's interior was flooded with a soft, diffused light. The dome was encased in a one-way vision screen so that operators outside could see inside, but the performing infant could not see outside...
...sort of midway station between the two, our inclinations are not equally divided between the Tiger and the Crimson as would seem natural, but bear a slight twinge to the northward. Whether or not he will admit it, the average Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third...
...that, instead of shooting him, they let him escape on a cake of drifting ice. They are under the impression that the ice cake will reach some port of safety but to U. S. audiences it seems that Mala is headed directly for what the picture calls "the last Igloo." At once an exciting travelog and a threadbare melodrama. Eskimo is typical Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer nature lore, solemn, lively, expensive. Most exciting shot: Mala, when he has eaten his last husky, lying down on the snow in order to attract a hungry wolf, which he chokes to death, tears apart...
...regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week in Igloo (TIME...
Despite occasional dramatic refinements that tend to discredit the entire picture, Igloo is well done. Good shots: the company of walruses inching off the ice floe; Eskimos kicking a snowball back & forth with their insteps; a whale whamming its tail out of water; a polar bear shuffling over...