These scenes of the Childs Glacier near Cordova in Southcentral Alaska, were likely filmed in about 1915 to 1920. Educational Films Corporation of America proclaims the glacier to be "one of the world's greatest icy marvels," and notes that "ice falling into the Copper River with terrific thunder ... causes the earth to tremble for miles" (B&W/Silent/16mm film).
This is a clip from AAF-61 of the UAF Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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