Nanook Of The North, Robert Flaherty 1921 part 1/8

Criterion Edition. This is not the original print, some scenes have been left out. The score is also not the original, and was composed by Timothy Brook in 1998.

Nanook of the North was filmed from 1920-1921 in Port Harrison, Northern Quebec by Robert Joseph Flaherty. This was the first successful documentary ever made, and was a true benchmark for ethnographic film. Robert Flaherty brought and entirely unknown culture to the western world.

The Flaherty family lived in Port Arthur Ontario from 1901-1905, and one of my relatives by the name of Hans Haugen held a photograph album from Robert Flaherty. Hans Haugen owned the general store at Loon Lake, where the Flahertys had their summer home. I've obtained a photograph called "The Sharks at Loon" containing Robert J. Flaherty, his father Robert H. Flaherty, and a few prominent family members of Port Arthur at the time it was taken. The Flaherty Cabin still stands at Loon Lake, and their former home is located on Algoma Street in Thunder Bay.

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[ellenfaithx]

How the hell did those things fit in that kayak?!?!

[charged220]

@ellenfaithx It's a cinematic effect. Each person in the kayak was a separate filmed shot, edited together in a convincing fashion. The titles arecarefully used to hide it. It's a hint at Flaherty's sense of humour!

[TheKayuk]

Today, Port Harrison is called Inukjuak

[charged220]

@TheKayuk Yes. I want to catch a flight there one day!

[worddoctor1]

I was working on the National Film Board Project in Thunder Bay, when we discovered your relative's Flaherty photo album. It was in an old cardboard box among many other dust-covered boxes in a back room of the Brodie Street Library; and you can imagine our excitement. It was especially exciting for me; because, just the year before, I'd met John Grierson, an old chum of Flaherty's and founder of the National Film Board.

If it weren't for Hans Haugen, these great treasures might have been lost!

[charged220]

@worddoctor1 What NFB project would that be? I'm guessing you're Jim Farrell, the one who wrote the article for the museum. I have done a lot of research around your article and have looked through other articles and historical sketches from the museum. You remember ahing about the sketch the sharks at Loon?

I've also interviewed a few people and found a deeper character sketch of Flaherty's friend Captain Knobel, and some of the Ruttans.

[TheSHAISHAY]

what a great movie , i am from alaska, a wolf once had me his mane was kiska, he was a great companion , i let him be wild , i guess thats what got him killed , remember him always , and the island we lived on for two years , i think it ws his heaven , I know it was mine

[pH4nTomPL4n3T]

When Eskimos say "Baby on Board", they really mean it!

[pH4nTomPL4n3T]

@mnplastic1 I thought the same thing when I saw that head bob up as Nanook is climbing out. Humorous yes, but I'm 100% convinced the scene is authentic as well.

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[davidbriseno]

@iheartmauao ooo i see good job, but that makes sense now why you were doing a research paper on him. I am in college also but not doing anthropology.

[iheartmauao]

@davidbriseno Yes, in my final semester of my Anthropology degree.

[davidbriseno]

@iheartmauao are you in college?

[iheartmauao]

@charged220 I am currently doing a research project on Flaherty and his contribution to ethnography (namely why he should be considered an ethnographer), I am wondering if you could recommend any helpful articles, as you seem quite knowledgeable on Flaherty's film style. Thanks :)

[jabames]

@bucklandb yes they were, theyd wear them sometimes, but by then they would have western clothing, but the old clothing is warmer than imported clothing at that time, or I could be wrong, my dad 50 years ago used to wear mukluks all the time in winter, spring and summer he went barefoot, and his parents and parents before them lived the old way, soo tradtional clothing would still be widely used

[gabbie9114]

Nanook Of The North was made in 1922 btw if you wanna change that .x.o.x.

[ratherthebarber]

@charged220 I don't agree with that, I think they were all in the kayak, Flaherty wanted to show the reality and it would not make any sense to cheat here.