The Champagne Safari

Summer 1934: Enigmatic multimillionaire Charles E. Bedaux embarks on "The Bedaux Sub-Arctic Expedition," a 2,300 kilometer trek through the unmapped Canadian Rockies. The extravagant caravan includes a fleet of automobiles, 130 packhorses, 53 Canadian cowboys, Bedaux's wife and his mistress, 400 pounds of books, crystal stemware and more than 20 tons of supplies, including pate de foie gras and, of course, champagne. To immortalize it all on film, Bedaux enlists the services of renowned Hollywood cinematographer Floyd Crosby. The safari was a disaster, and Crosby's footage was believed lost until filmmaker George Ungar unearthed 20 cans of nitrate stock years later ...