Life in arctic Alaska and Siberia, with Eskimos at work and play, a stream of ice floes in the Bering Strait, a U.S.
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The first thing that wallops you about Atop of the World in Motion is the smell you swear you can almost sniff: rancid blubber, damp wolf-fur, smoke of birch twigs inside a dome of ice. It’s a phantom scent, of course—an illusion cooked up by photons dancing at 18 fps—but that’s the sleight-of-hand this obscure 1924...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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" The first thing that wallops you about Atop of the World in Motion is the smell you swear you can almost sniff: rancid blubber, damp wolf-fur, smoke of birch twigs inside a dome of ice. It’s a phantom scent, of course—an illusion cooked up by photons dancing at 18 fps—but that’s the sleight-of-hand this obscure 1924 curiosity perfects. The camera is both eavesdropper and survivor, shivering alongside Inupiat and Siberian Yupik as they choreograph existence on the planet’s most unforgiving da..."
