2 min, 10 sec film clip, color/silent. Gold dust is poured from a bag into a gold pan. There are shots of a smelting furnace, men operating the furnace, a hot gold ingot, molten gold being poured into a mold, and a cooled ingot being shaped...
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Title taken from verso.
Photograph of the open cockpit biplane, mounted on skis.
Verso: first experimental mail flights Fairbanks to McGrath made by Col. Carl Ben Eielson. Ship is 400 h.p. 12 cylinder water cooled Liberty engine DeHaviland...