Nanook of the North
Duration: 00:55:00 This is a documentary about an Eskimo community which took 2 years for completion and it was shot on the Eastern shore of Hudson Bay. Flaherty's goal was complete authenticity, despite the fact that most of the scenes were enacted by Nanook and his companions. Though the film...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Edwards, Herbert
1922
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:079408f3-d88d-42d8-837f-b843256ecfab |
| Summary: | Duration: 00:55:00
This is a documentary about an Eskimo community which took 2 years for completion and it was shot on the Eastern shore of Hudson Bay. Flaherty's goal was complete authenticity, despite the fact that most of the scenes were enacted by Nanook and his companions. Though the film has no conventional plot, it tells a cogerent story throught its extraordinary images. However, the films owes its approach to its time: it hints at the old cliché about the noble savage being pushed towards a civilization that will destroy him. But it does so with a rare feeling for a timeless landscape and for a way of life that had remained unchaged for centuries. |
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| Published: | 1922 |