![]() BBC Radio 3 - World on 3, Northern Lights: Nanook of the North. This remarkable footage can make uncomfortable viewing when we read the scene cards - one in particular describes the 'happy go lucky' Inuit, when in reality they are fighting for survival. Tanya Tagaq considers it a film seen through "1. Speaking to CBC News in 2. History (to 1900) Documentaries About Specific Tribes and Regions First Nations and Inuit Peoples(Canada and Alaska) Contemporary Issues Images of Indians/stereotypes Arts, Crafts, Dance and Song General and Miscellaneous. Flaherty was not trained in film, and learned what he could quickly about photography when he decided to shoot footage up north while working for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He accidentally destroyed all of his original. Tagaq explained: "Yeah, like, "Look at these savage people that have no idea what this is, oh isn’t that funny, they don’t know." And it’s like yeah, why don’t we take someone living in England and put them on the land and laugh at them for dying in the cold? Oh, he’s being eaten by a bear.". Robert J. Flaherty; Born: Robert Joseph Flaherty (1884-02-16) February 16, 1884 Iron Mountain, Michigan, U.S. Died: July 23, 1951 (1951-07-23) (aged 67) Dummerston, Vermont, U.S. Cause of death: Cerebral thrombosis: Occupation. Directed by Robert J. Flaherty. With Allakariallak, Nyla, Allee, Cunayou. In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuit. The best movies of 1922 picked by critics and filmmakers and sorted by rank. Includes award nominees and foreign films released in 1922 with movie reviews and home video release information. ![]() Rating is available when the video has been rented. Nanook of the North, Robert FLAHERTY, 1921. Nanook of the North; Directed by: Robert J. Flaherty: Produced by: Robert J. Flaherty: Written by: Robert J. Flaherty: Starring: Allakariallak Nyla Cunayou: Music by: Stanley Silverman: Cinematography: Robert J. Flaherty. ![]() Ellis, Jack. The Documentary Idea: A Critical History of English-Language Documentary Film and Video. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1989.
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