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Flaherty, Robert Joseph, - 1884-1951

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Flaherty, Robert Joseph

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Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) - the chronicle of one year in the life of an Inuit hunter and his family in the Hudson Bay region - was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Before Nanook, Flaherty endured a number of failures, disappointments, and false starts. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend.Previous biographical emphasis on Nanook has not only obscured Flaherty's early career but also neglected the critical contributions Frances made to his development as an artist. Robert and Frances Flaherty charts her transformation from a Bryn Mawr bluestocking to the partner of a frontier explorer and offers her unique perspective as his collaborator and publicist.From iron prospector to photographer to filmmaker, Flaherty's early life is situated in the context of his explorations of the Canadian north and its peoples, the development of modern cinema, the rise of modernism, and his association with significant figures such as Alfred Adler, Franz Boas, Edward Curtis, and Alfred Steiglitz.

Motion picture producers and directors --- Inuit --- Directors, Motion picture --- Film directors --- Film producers --- Filmmakers --- Motion picture directors --- Moviemakers --- Moving-picture producers and directors --- Producers, Motion picture --- Persons --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- In motion pictures. --- Flaherty, Robert J., --- Flaherty, Frances Hubbard. --- Flaherty, Frances Hubbard --- Hubbard, Frances Johnson, --- Canada, Northern --- Arctic, Canadian --- Canadian Arctic --- Northern Canada --- Arctic regions --- Inuit in motion pictures. --- Flaherty, Robert Joseph, --- Motion pictures --- Flaherty, Bob, --- Flaherty, Robert J. --- Flaėrti, Robert, --- Флаэрти, Роберт,

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Nanook of the North: Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes. Nanook revisited: When Robert Flaherty produced Nanook of the North, some of the film's content was staged and not a true picture of the Eskimos. In this documentary, a modern-day film crew revisits Inukjuak in northern Quebec, the site of Flaherty's filming, and the facts are separated from the fiction. Houses of the Arctic: Called Dwellings of the Far North on the container, this short film, an extract from the actuality film "Houses of the Arctic and the Tropics" included in the Peoples and Cultures of the World: Pathé Science Series, is the igloo-building sequence from Nanook of the North, re-edited and titled as an educational film. The wedding of Palo: Nanook's obvious successor, this film is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Traditional eskimo culture is embodied in this early ethnographic film of life in Greenland focusing around the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuit woman. Arctic hunt: Frank E. Kleinschmidt led an expedition to Alaska in 1913 to gather specimens for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, and made this filmed notebook at a time few people had seen images of the far North, documenting scenes of Eskimo life include their trading and bartering practices. Primitive love: Two excerpts from the documentary feature ("Winter in the Arctic" and "Polar bear and seal") which focuses on an Eskimo family and their daily struggle for existence in the Arctic wastes. Eskimo hunters (northwestern Alaska): Part of The Earth and its Peoples series of thirty-six educational films, this documentary, called Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska on the container, is a first person narrative in which an Alaskan boy of Point Hope describes his family's existence and the lives of Inuit on the coast of Alaska. Face of the high Arctic: This short documentary studies the geological evolution that has gone on for millions of years in the High Arctic, following the evidence of glaciers that have advanced and receded, and tracing life forms that have changed with the climate.

Eskimos --- Eskimos --- Eskimos --- Inuit --- Inuit --- Inuit --- Human beings --- Ammassalimiut Eskimos --- Eskimos --- Man-woman relationships --- Inuit drama --- Motion pictures in ethnology --- Ecology --- Inupiat --- Eskimos --- Subsistence hunting --- Subsistence economy --- Natural history --- Social life and customs --- Effect of environment on --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs --- Inukjuak (Inuit community) --- Inukjuak (Québec) --- Canada, Northern --- Hudson Bay --- Québec (Province) --- Ammassalik (Greenland : District) --- Greenland --- Alaska --- Arctic regions --- Arctic regions --- Arctic regions --- Point Hope (Alaska) --- Queen Elizabeth Islands (Nunavut and N.W.T.) --- History. --- History. --- Description and travel. --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel. --- Ecology. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel.