• Short Summary

    American fliers and the men sent to rescue them are trapped on the ice in Greenland.

  • Description

    Full title reads: "Drama of the Arctic: 13 Men Face Ice Cap Terror".
    Introductory Intertitle reads: "First pictures from Greenland show rescue of crashed US airmen from Snow waste after an 18 day death threat".

    Greenland.

    GV Aerial shot arctic wastes of Greenland. Aerial view of crashed American aircraft, C47 Dakota.

    LV Aircraft wreck - camera flying away from.

    LV Flying Fortress rescue plane stuck in soft snow.

    MS Aerial view flying away from Flying Fortress on ground.

    LV Aircraft towing glider to scene of crash.

    LV Aerial crashed glider on ice.

    LV Aircraft towing another glider to scene.

    SV US Airmen throwing supplies out of door of plane.

    LV Aerial view wrecked aircraft.

    LV Aerial view plane flying over wreck.

    LV Towards aerial view of wreck, flying onto second wrecked plane.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1403.07
    Media URN:
    45647
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    03/01/1949
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:45:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:12:23:00 / 01:14:08:00
    Canister:
    49/1

Comments (1)

  1. Unknown user says

    The same pictures, but with a different commentary can be seen in clip 1526.07.

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