“The future looks bright for Timko and Oogala.” So said the warm, white male voice on Sunday night - the Wonderful World in Living Color. The hearty Eskimo(say Inuit) youngsters were now fully prepared to meet the rigors of the North and thrive. Next week we would thrill to see Charlie the Cougar. Brute hunter, cunning but never successful. (No sight of doe's blood\gashed throat on Sunday night). Timko's grasp is light on the ancient rifle in his lap; His gaze far across the open land, 10,000 feet or more. The shell is in the chamber. Oogala sees open water from her house all winter long. She turns from the frosted window to CNN and pours. The last dogs howl for the children taken away to school. Three hundred forty breeds of dog, but the snow bears will soon be gone (like the ermine, the fox and honking geese). The scientist laughs out loud, “The earth will survive the 6th extinction, but we won't.”
Snow Bear (television) Two-part television show; aired on November 1 and 8, 1970. Directed by Gunther Von Fritsch. A polar bear cub is befriended by Timko, a teenage Eskimo boy, while he is on a year’s self-imposed exile from his community, learning the art of the hunt. The soon grown bear has to be returned to the wilds after it destroys the village’s meager supply of food. Stars Steve Kalcak, Rossman Peetook, Laura Itta. Filmed on location in Point Barrow and other Alaskan sites. Released for schools on 16mm film as The Track of the Giant Snow Bear. https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72928840
