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Mush! to the Movies - Das Eskimobaby (The Eskimo Baby/Le Bébé Eskimo)

Co-Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum, this film club features a dazzling selection of films spanning over 90 years of glacial activity.

The series will feature six events with free popcorn offered to all in the Nova Tuskhut, the only Arctic Trading Post on the North American Continent, located on the grounds of the Velaslavasay Panorama. Attendees will be given a unique souvenir Polar Passport and those who attend all six screenings will receive a surprise gift and a chance to win a night's stay in The Nova Tuskhut!

**Free tickets with advance RSVP for current LA Filmforum Members and Members of The Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.**
Contact the secretary to RSVP event@panoramaonview.org

Second Screening Announced:

Das Eskimobaby (The Eskimo BabyLe Bébé Eskimo)
Germany, 1918, 65 min., B&W, Digital Projection
Directed by Heinz Schall
Silent with score by Maud Nelissen

This rare, winning German silent film stars comedy diva Asta Nielsen as Ivigtut, and Freddy Wingardh as a young polar explorer, Knud Prätorius (whose character is, perhaps, modeled on Danish explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmusen). Prätorius brings Ivigtut back home with him to Berlin from her Eskimo village, where she experiences a confounding and comical Western culture.

Preceded by:
Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska
1949, 20 min., b&w, sound, digital projection
Produced by Louis deRochemont, directed by Kay Norton.

A straightforward documentary of the late 1940s with an Eskimo boy as narrator, detailing the daily activities of the boy and his family. "This film shows activities seen in Nanook [of the North] and [The Wedding of] Palo as practiced decades later: here, seal are hunted with rifles, igloos are roofed with canvas, furs and crafts are exchanged for manufactured goods at the trading post, songs and dances become recreations in the school house. The dog sled, umiak and kayak are means of transportation, and hunting remains the basis of their livelihood." Flicker Alley