The photographer Jette Bang shot her film about the Inuit in 1938/39, by order of the Royal Greenlandic Trade Company, and her images of Greenland brought her fame. "Inuit" bears witness to a culture and a traditional way of life that almost vanished in the wake of World War II. Nevertheless, the film was hardly ever shown and was considered lost for a considerable length of time. It was only in 1984 that the film was reconstructed and provided with a sound track. Shot in the Thule region, it introduces polar Eskimos that live a nomadic lifestyle throughout eight months of the year. It shows them in the winter and the summer, shows them building an igloo and shows their summer residences. No other film has captured the material culture of these hunter and trapper families in such detail – the functionality of blubber lamps and the production of clothing from the furs of hunted animals, the various uses for kajaks and the diversity of mask and drum dances.