The Second Arctic Winter Games

The Second Arctic Winter Games

| 28 min

The Games included many sports seen in Olympic competition, plus others--for example, pirautaqturniq, the Inuit skill of hitting an object with a ten meter-long sled dog whip. This film captures the all-out participation in the week-long events hosted by Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon, with competitors from all over the Arctic including Alaska, and with observers from the Soviet Union.

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The Second Arctic Winter Games, Dennis Sawyer, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Dennis Sawyer
  • producer
    Dennis Sawyer
  • executive producer
    David Bairstow
  • commentary
    Strowan Robertson
  • director of photography
    Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
    Bob Charlie
  • camera
    Bob Charlie
    Albert Canadien
  • sound
    Glenn Lazore
  • re-recording
    Michel Descombes

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