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The Great White North (also released as "Lost in the Arctic"; see below), the 1928 H.A. Snow & Sidney Snow arctic exploration documentary ("Authentic pictures filmed in the Polar Regions by H.A. and Sidney Snow:"; "It's real! It's different! It's thrilling!"; chronicling the Snow expedition to the far north in search of the Steffanson Expedition) featuring Philo McCullough and narrated by Vihjamur Stefansson. Note that this movie opened in July 1928 and was released by William Fox. It told about the Steffanson Expedition to the Arctic, which took place in 1913. During that expedition, four men were cut off from the main party and never found. Ten years later, in 1923, H.A. and Sidney Snow went back to the arctic in search of what happened to the four men. They took cameras with them and recorded their trip up the west coast of Alaska, including hunting whales and walruses, and capturing a 2,300 pound polar bear alive and taking it aboard their ship! They never did find out what happened to the four men they were searching for. Five years later, this movie about their 1923 expedition was made, no doubt because Roald Amundsen, a great explorer who traveled the Arctic by air, had renewed interest in this subject. Amundsen himself went missing in June of 1928, and this movie has a short introduction by Vihjamur Stefansson, talking about the expeditions and mentioning Amundsen being lost, so obviously, that was filmed right after he went missing and right before this film premiered in July. There is conflicting information on the Internet about this movie. The AFI catalog and the only U.S. poster and lobby card we have auctioned refer to the movie as "The Great White North". But contemporary reviews from The New York Times and Time Magazine refer to it as "Lost in the Arctic". So it is quite possible that, like many other William Fox movies, it initially solely played at a very few theaters under the title "Lost in the Arctic" (likely with only locally created posters), and then when it had a wider release through several cities, posters were created, and those posters called it "The Great White North". If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the eight pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are four pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended).

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