Made by filmmaker, sporting goods store and truck company owner Pat Salvino, this film POLAR ADVENTURE shows a big game hunt of a different sort — a hunt for an “Alaskan brown bear” or Kodiak Bear on Kodiak Island. The island is on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The film likely dates to the mid-1960s.

Opening: semi tractor trailer being loaded with cargo by a forklift. The semi being filled belongs to the P. Salvino Transport company. Truck pulls out of the terminal. Title: P. Salvino Transport using custom built Kenworth Tractors presents “Voyage to Kodiak Island” (:16-2:04). Pacific Northern Airlines PNA Jet on the runaway. Jet takes off into the sky. Flight is leaving Seattle, Washington and heading to Kodiak Island over the Canadian coast. Pat Salvino exits the Pacific Northern (PNA) plane. Snow capped mountain behind him. Kodiak Hotel. Sun set. Pat stands next to a bear statue. A Kodiak ‘welcoming sign.’ Main street in Kodiak. A king crab celebration in which scuba divers dive for king crab. A woman poses next to a king crab (2:05-4:53). Pat fishes in a stream. His line catches a trout. The trout fights. Pat holds the trout. Pat feeds a fawn milk. Map of Alaska. Kodiak Island on the map. A plane flies near the island (4:54-6:45). Pat takes a small plane. Aerial shots of approaching an island. Plane lands on the water in the bay. A man carries another on his back, fooling around. Water is still near Kodiak Island in Terror Bay (6:46-8:54). Pat exits the cabin. Pat and his guides carry their backpacks and rifles. Numerous bears are seen roaming the island and playing in the water. In a fishing boat, Pat and his guides. A bear runs by the shore (8:55-11:20). Pay uses binoculars on the boat. A giant male Kodiak bear high in the snow. Pat and his guides row to shore. Pat and his guides trudge on through the wooded area (11:21-12:47). Pat and his guides sit in the brush. They forge forward up the hill. The bear catches wind the men are near and he takes off. Pat runs with his rifle. Pat closes in on the bear and fires a shot (12:48-14:35). Pat sits with a dead, big bear. His guide shakes his hand. They open the bear’s mouth, show off his teeth. Pa talks with his guides. The men haul off the dead bear, they skin the bear. Skinning out the bear. The bullet is found in the bear. The bear has no fur left(14:36-17:20). The hide is off the bear. The men are back in the smaller boat. Brush is cleared on the island. The hide is packed and a man backpacks it (17:21-19:49). Back on the boat, the men can rest. Snow capped mountains around them. Pat takes it all in. Boat heads for camp. Sun sets across the water (19:50-21:25). Skilled men remove the hair from the hide so it can be cured. Skinned bear head. The hide is laid out. The hide is stretched out while Pat raises his rifle to it. Men pose in front of it (21:26-22:45). Airplanes on the water. Plane in the air. A Kodiak bear runs up a hill at high speeds. Over the water, sea lions. Aerial shots of Alaska (22:46-25:04). Plane lands. Pat outside at Kodiak Airport. PNA jet on runway. Plane lands in Seattle, WA and taxis to gate (25:05-26:41). Inside Pat’s home, the bear hide on the floor (26:42-27:42). End credits (27:43-27:53)

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