Nanook of the North
Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Artic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our discovery of the people and their activities, and ninety years later, Nanook of the North remains as completely engaging as it was in 1922, a huge influence on many ethnographic films that followed.
This edition is mastered in high definition at the visually correct speed from the painstaking 35mm restoration of 1972, with a lovely orchestral score composed, compiled and conducted by Timothy Brock. Selected for the National Film Registry, 1989.
Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Arctic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway.
Running Time
79 mins
Year
1922
Kanopy ID
1100078
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I have seen this masterpiece more than 15 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Between the Eskimo and the Kalahari's Kung Bushmen I don't know whom to admire more. Both live in the harshest regions of the world and have survived for 20,000 years. Now modern Europeans have disrupted their ...Read more
I have seen this masterpiece more than 15 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Between the Eskimo and the Kalahari's Kung Bushmen I don't know whom to admire more. Both live in the harshest regions of the world and have survived for 20,000 years. Now modern Europeans have disrupted their lives and rendered them poverty stricken, alcoholic and endangered into near extinction. I want my grandsons aged ten and twelve to watch this with me.
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