When they're in Alaska it has night and day, light and dark. Shouldn't it be just light or just dark depending on the time of year? Alaska has 6 months of light and 6 months of dark, and at least to my knowlege there isn't a time period where there's both.
shareIt's my understanding that at some point there is a TWI-LIGHT period
"When next we meet, we shall be as golden clouds upon the sky"---The Raisuli
People - Alaska is a huge state that encompasses many latitudes. The parts of the state below the Artic circle have day and night in each 24 hour period, though they are much longer or shorter depending on the time of year than those experienced in the lower 48 states. This film is set in Nome which is below the Arctic Circle.
Having said all that his film was made in California and is highly inaccurate in virtually all of its depiction of Alaska. But, it is a comedy after all and not meant to be seen as a documentary of the real Alaskan gold rush.
I'll make a good Gordon, Gordon!
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3 months no sun
3 months 1/2 sun
3 months full sun
3 months 1/2 sun
repeat.
varies by area, gradual changes.
I hope you guys don't really think that in the winter, there's absolutely no sun.
In the winter, we get about 3 hours of sunlight.
In the fall/spring, we get the usual hour of sunlight as though in the states.
And in the summer, we usually get 24 hours of sunlight, about 3 of those isn't really direct sunlight but it's still very light out.
But if you're going to complain about the sunlight thing, well then complain about the terrain. It's usually forest but in the movie, its completely dry although the mountain backdrop is good for the valley in south central Alaska, there's no real montain ranges located near Nome.
I could go on about it but it's only a movie and it was also made in 1960.
"it's only a movie" I understand, but what does "it was also made in 1960" have to do with it?
shareIt seems to me that many movie-makers in the last century, up until sometime in the 1980s or 1990s, were not so interested certain accuracies. Location details being one of the biggest. Many, many films were produced in the studio or locally, with the idea that audiences wouldn't notice a painted backdrop filling in for the mountains of Oregon.
Earlier films about shipboard romance never see a drop of water, but James Cameron builds a scale model Titanic & all the actors are actually IN the tanks.
All sorts of WW2 movies - whether on the battlefields of Europe or the jungles of the Pacific - were shot in SoCal or other US states. Along comes SPR in the late 1990s & Spielberg actually films it in Europe.
And 6-months of light/6-months of darkness? Please. Is that poster in the dark ages? Look it up. The farther north one goes, the closer to the pole one gets. And at those higher latitudes, Earth's curvature is more pronounced. At the 2 solstices, the length of light & dark is almost 24 hours at the higher lats. Fairbanks is famous for its Summer Solstice Festival. But at the equinox, it's about 12/12, just like in the Lower 48. I've been there. It's a spectacular place. Everything you think Alaska will be - it IS. And then some.
...Boy, I got vision & the rest of the world wears bifocals. (Butch to Sundance)
Seems to me that filmmakers up to "Star Wars" (1978) were more interested in human drama rather than wookies and other "accuracy" in fantasy. This drama was derived from the stage, in which improvising was necessary and both performers and the audience got involved in the talent required to produce a performance out of next to nothing. Movie watchers understood this and for their 10 cents were willing to use their imagination. Movie watchers today pay $10 so they don't have to use their imagination to see literal "accuracy" but the human drama is lost. Though what so-called accuracy in involved in the CGI of sparkling, pretty explosions and splattering bodies, and what the advantage is in the massive expense of simply recreating events full-scale like a documentary -- I couldn't tell you.
shareFirst of all, in places above the arctic circle, where you get periods where the sun doesn't go down, and where the sun doesn't come up, it doesn't just switch from on extreme to another, day to day. It gradually changes over the year, just like everywhere else, so you will always have a period with both day and night, gradually changing into longer and longer days, or longer and longer nights.
Second of all, it depends where in Alaska. In the south, they get both day and night all year round. Google "arctic circle" to see how much of Alaska is above it. Right at the edge of the arctic circle, it is just one day that the sun doesn't come up, and one day that the sun doesn't go down. The further north you go, the longer periods of this you have.
Think of the movie as being set during a terrific Alaskan summer; blue skies and plenty of sunshine.🐭
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