KABLOONAS

KABLOONAS
Burial of John Franklin. Author: me

KABLOONAS

Kabloonas is the way in which the Inuit who live in the north part of Canada call those who haven´t their same ascendency.

The first time i read this word was in the book "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan, when, as the result of the conversations between John Rae and some inuit, and trying to find any evidence of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin Expedition, some of then mentioned that they watched how some kabloonas walked to die in the proximities of the river Great Fish.

I wish to publish this blog to order and share all those anecdotes that I´ve been finding in the arctic literature about arctic expeditions. My interest began more than 15 years ago reading a little book of my brother about north and south pole expeditions. I began reading almost all the bibliography about Antarctic expeditions and the superknown expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc. After I was captured by the Nansen, Nobile and Engineer Andree. But the most disturbing thing in that little book, full of pictures, was the two pages dedicated to the last Franklin expedition of the S.XIX, on that moment I thought that given the time on which this and others expeditions happened, few or any additional information could be obtained about it. I couldn´t imagine that after those two pages It would be a huge iceberg full of stories, unresolved misteries, anecdotes, etc. I believe that this iceberg, on the contrary than others, would continue growing instead melting.



miércoles, 10 de febrero de 2021

POLAR MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARIES - SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING

History of film have been riddle with polar related movies almost since the very moment it was conceived.

Some years ago I started to compile all those polar related movies in a Xcel file which you can find below available to be downloaded. My intention was to bring them to light orderly decade by decade explaining my opinion about those which I had watched and trying to rescue some of the anecdotes related to them, some quite tragic, by the way. I even wrote a first post in an abandoned blog project where I started to talk about the polar movies released in the 1920s and which I will rescue now and will  translate into english for continuing with the rest.

As a sort of a preview of the posts which are to come, I will tell you that I was very pleased when found that in one of  the firsts films set in the polar regions "A la conquéte du Pôle" of 1912  by George Méliès, the director of the more known movie "Le Voyage dans le lune", the spanish participant in the race to reach the North pole, which is the theme of the film, is called with the appropiated name of "Cerveza" which means beer.

NOTE: Thanks to Kenn Harper, the renownedd Canadian historian specialised in Inuit history, culture and traditions, I have just added two new films to the list which now are in first position in the list, are they the first polar movies of the history? These are "The way of the Eskimo" and " Lost in the Arctic" both shot in 1911.


The film is available in Youtube here, it actually deserves to be watched:


The list of polar movies is not too long, I still have to update it though, so don´t become disappointed if you can´t find the very recent "Amundsen" or "Arctic" movies. The list will surely grow much more in the coming years since the poles and their exploration history looks to be fashionable again and besides, there must be much more polar movies out there which I have still to find. 

UPDATED LIST OF POLAR MOVIES

Enjoy them!:

TítuloAñoNacionalidadDirectorGenero
1910-20´s
1The way of the Eskimo1911Nancy Columbia
2Lost in the Arctic1911Nancy Columbia
Roald Amundsens sydpolsferd1912
3The Conquest of the Pole1912FranciaGeorge MelliesMusical, comedia
4The Alaska Siberian expedition1912USA
5The call of the north (1914)1914
6The Eskimo Baby1918
7South (In the grip of Polar Ice)1919Documental
8The Romance of the Far Fur Country1920CanadaDocumental
9Nanook of the North (1922)1922CanadaAccion
10The man from beyond1922
11Die weiße Wüste1922
12North of Hudson Bay1923Documental
13The Great White Silence1924InglaterraHerbert PointingDocumental
14Searching For Santa!1925AmericaAnimación
15Primitive love1927USA
16Eskimotive1928AmericaAnimación
17Milak, the Greenland Hunter1928Germany
18The Viking (1931 film)1928
19The lost Zeppelin1929
20The Call of the North (1929 film)1929AlemaniaDrama
1930´s
21Arctic Antics (Walt Disney Silly simphonies)1930AmericaAnimación
22With Byrd at the South Pole1930AmericaDocumental
23The silver horde1930
24Eskimo1930
25The Viking (1931)1931Drama
26Dirigible (1931)1931AmericaDrama
27The White God/ Eskimo1932
28Igloo (film)1932Documental
29Hot and Cold (film)1933Animación
30I've Got to Sing a Torch Song1933Animación
31S.O.S. Eisberg1933Alemania-AmericaDrama
3290 degrees south1933InglaterraDocumental
33North Pole Ahoy1934
34The Wedding of Palo1934Danish GreenlandicMovie
35The Call of the Wild (1935 film)1935AmericaDrama
36She (1935 film)1935AmericaDrama
37INto little america1935AmericaDocumental
38The Phantom Ship (film)1936AmericaAnimación
39Skunked Again1936AmericaAnimación
40Polar Trappers1938AmericaAnimación
1940´s
41The Arctic Giant1943
42The Three Caballeros1944
43Payday (1944 film)1944
44We live in the arctic1947
45Scott of the Antarctic (film)1948
46The Secret Land1948Documental
47Arctic Fury1949
48Frigid Hare1949
1950´s
498 Ball Bunny1950
50The Thing from Another World1951
51Island in the Sky (1953 film)1953
52Operation Blue Jay1953Documental
53Hell Below Zero1954
54Men Against the Arctic1955Documental
55Antarctic Crossing1958Documental
56The Living Stone1958
57The Atomic Submarine1959
1960´s
58The Savage Innocents1960
59The Savage Innocents (1960)1960Documental
60Qimmit, a Clash of Two Truths1960Documental
61Gorath1962
62Georgy Sedov1962Rusia
63The Law of Antarctica1962RusiaMovie
64Antarctic Pioneers1963Documental
65Dr. Strangelove1964Animación
66140 Days Under the World1964Documental
67Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak1964
68The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson1964Movie
69Ice Station Zebra1968
70The Red Tent (film)1969Animación
1970´s
71Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (film)1970
72The Call of the Wild (1972 film)1972
73Ape and Super-Ape1972Documental
74Frankenstein: The True Story1973
75The Aviators of Hudson Strait1973Documental
76The Island at the Top of the World1974Animación
77The Sannikov Land (film)1974
78The White Dawn1974
79The First Easter Rabbit1976Rusia
8072 Degrees Below Zero1976Rusia
81Rudolph's Shiny New Year1976
82Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger1977
83Bear Island1979
1980´s
84Virus (1980 film)1980Animación
85Firefox (film)1982
86Flight of the Eagle1982
87The Thing (1982 film)1982
88Antarctica (1983 film)1983
89Iceman (1984 film)1984
90Orion's Belt (film)1985
91Laughter and Grief by the White Sea1987Animación
92The Chipmunk Adventure1987Animación
93Buried in ice1988Documental
1990´s
94Between Two Worlds (1990 film)1990
95Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas1991
96White Fang (1991 film)1991
97The shadow of the wolf1992
98Arctic Blue1993
99Ordeal in the Arctic1993
100Der Kongress der Pinguine1993Documental
101Life in the Freezer1993Documental
102White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf1994
103The Pebble and the Penguin1995
104The Snow Queen's Revenge1996
105Insomnia (1997 film)1997
106Smilla's Sense of Snow (film)1997Animación
107A Frozen Dream1997Documental
108The deadly arctic expedition1997
109Sometimes They Come Back... for More1998Animación
110The X-Files (film)1998
111Lovers of the Arctic Circle1998
112Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie1998Animación
113When the Light Comes1998Animación
114Glory and Honor1998
115Olive, the Other Reindeer1999
2000´s
116People of the Seal2009Documental
117The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition2000Documental
118Race to the south pole2000
119Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner2001
120The Little Polar Bear2001
121Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys2001
122Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure2001Documental
123Arctic Tomb2001
124Shackleton (TV show)2002
12530 days of darkness2002Terror
126Arctic Dreamer - The lonely quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson2003Documentary
127Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole2003
128The Snow Walker2003
129Alien Hunter2003
130Deep Freeze (film)2003Animación
131If the Weather Permits2003
132Godzilla: Final Wars2004Animación
133Voices from the Tundra2004Documental
134In Search of Santa2004Animación
135The Polar Express (film)2004
136Alien vs. Predator (film)2004
137The Day After Tomorrow2004Animación
138Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive2004Documental
139Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry2005
140The Little Polar Bear 2 – The Mysterious Island2005
141Antarctic Journal2005
142March of the Penguins2005Documental
143Arctic Passage2005Documental
144Being Caribou2005Documental
145Finding Franklin2005
146Happy Feet2006
147The Last Winter (2006 film)2006Animación
148Solar Attack2006
149Eight Below2006
150Arctic Son2006Documental
151The White Planet2006Documental
152Earth2007
153Far North (2007 film)2007
154Transformers (film)2007
155Earth (2007 film)2007
156Encounters at the End of the World2007Documental
157Arctic Tale2007Documental
158The worst journey of the world2007
159Ice People2008
160Stargate: Continuum2008
161The los st Eskimo, Minik2008Documental
162Passage (2008 film)2008Documental
163G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra2009
164Monsters vs. Aliens2009
165Watchmen (film)2009
166Whiteout (2009 film)2009
167Mawson: Science and Survival (2012)2012Documental
2020´s
168A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures2010
169Inuk (film)2010Animación
170Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul2010Documental
171How I Ended This Summer (2010)2010
172Qimmit, a Clash of Two Truths2010
173Arctic (TV serie)2011
174Arthur Christmas2011
175The Thing (2011 film)2011
176The Grey (film)2011
177On the Ice2011
178Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson2011Documental
179Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories2011
180The greely expedition2011
181Big Miracle2012
182Nazis at the Center of the Earth2012
183South of Sanity2012
184The Polar Bears2012
185To the Arctic 3D2012Documental
186Vanishing Point (2012 film)2012Documental
187Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
188Antarctica: A Year on Ice2014Documental
189Sol (film)2014
190Ice and the Sky2015Documental
191The Hand of Franklin2015Documental
192Hunt For The Arctic Ghost Ship2015Documental
193Okpik's Dream2015
194The Icebreaker (film)2016
195Norm of the North2016
196Angry Inuk2016Documental
197Call of the Ice2016Documental
198Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things2016
199Arctic2017
200The Fate of the Furious2017
201Draft:March of the Penguins 22017Documental
202There Is a House Here2017
203Iron Sky: The Coming Race2018
204The story of tom crean2018Documental
205Antarctica: A message from another planet2018Mario CuestaDocumental
206
Explorations of the arctic unknown (Vilhalmur Steffanson)
Documental