The temperature is 20 degrees below freezing: the place is Pelly Bay, deep in the Canadian Arctic -home of the Netzilik Eskimos - the People of the Seal.
For centuries they led a life of incredible hardship, before finally being swept away into civilised settlements. But just before this happened a Canadian camera team shot nearly 100 hours of film of the old ways. It is the best of this which makes up this and next week's programmes. The result reflects not just the actions but also the outlook of a vanished race - so that what starts as a simple pictorial pleasure becomes in time a moving human document.

"Two unique programmes..." (Daily Telegraph)
"A truly remarkable film..." (Daily Express)
A BBC/National Film Board of Canada co-production
(From Bristol)