“A realistic film, depicting the breaking up of the ice onf the Tanana River. The heat of the sun breaks up the ice, the huge boulders collapse, and a wooden bridge is carried along, the massive beams being hurled down the stream and carried down to the sea. (Released October 20th)”
Summary from The Bioscope · 20 October 1910
Prints of films thought lost still turn up in attics, private collections and archives. A record like this one is how the next one gets found.
Tell us about a printNo cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.
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No record has been located of this film having been released in the United States. In Great Britain, according to a listing in The Bioscope, it was released under the Thanhouser name, possibly as a filler. It is highly unlikely that the filming was done by a Thanhouser crew.
From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1910 →
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Alaska’s Adieu to Winter”. thanhouser.org/films/alaska-s-adieu-to-winter/
