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Jim Bond To Show Famous Pictures
The Whitehorse Star, July 31, 1953The famous Jim Bond wildlife motion picture program will be shown in Whitehorse at the High School Auditorium, 8 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 28, 29 and 30. The program will be sponsored by the Yukon Fish and Game Association and proceeds, after expenses, will go to the importation of elk and buffalo.
Rolf Hougen, secretary of the YF and GA, said, "Jim Bond is donating his services and films to this fine cause. His films plus his outstanding narration have won many prizes and we are sure a huge crowd will turn out. They should make a lot of money out of this program."
Bond is well known in the Yukon and is here for this fifth long trip into the Yukon wilderness. He will leave Friday for a 55-day packhorse trip into the Ogilvies, north and east of Dawson. Bobby Austin will be his outfitter. He is the author of "From Out of the Yukon," "America's Number One Trophy" and "The Rifleman in Alaska," as well as more than 30 magazine articles. He is an official scorer for the northwest for the Boone and Crockett Club of New York. Bond has had more than 800 shows of his Yukon pictures from New York to the Pacific. So successful have his shows been in the States that the famous narrator has more than 200 shows booked for the next two years.
The program will consist of three all-color motion pictures - his Yukon picture, "Into the Wilderness" was taken in the Bonnet Plume area on the Arctic slope where the game had probably never seen man, and features many action shots of giant moose, stately caribou, grizzly bear and white sheep. The second picture, "Those Kodiak Bear," was taken by Bond last summer. Bond and famous bear guide, Alf Madsen, studied and photographed the giant bear in the interior of Kodiak Island. One hundred and twenty-nine bear were seen and 49 photographed, some as close as 25 feet. And the third picture, "Alaska's Leaping Rainbows," was filmed on the Alaska Peninsula, where ten-pound rainbows do some fantastic acting right in front of your eyes. Needless to say, the program is for the entire family.
