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Nanook of the North - A Story Of Life In the Actual Arctic (1922) is regarded as the first significant non-fiction feature, often designated the pioneer of the motion pictures of cultural anthropology, shot in the days before the term documentary had even been coined.
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty had lived among the Eskimos in Canada for many years as a prospector and explorer, and he had shot some footage of them on an informal basis before he decided to make a more formal record of their daily lives. Though the film presents a "happy" culture bordering on primitive innocence, thanks to it's objectivity and Flaherty's commitment to the realistic presentment, finally the portrait of Nonook and his family is anything but condescending.
Rather than simply record events as they happened, Flaherty stages scenes - fishing, hunting, building an igloo - to carry along his narrative. The film's tremendous success confirmed Flaherty's status as a first rate storyteller and keen observer of man's fragile relationship with the harshest environmental conditions. Nanook was the first and cultic masterpiece of the tradition later called 'savage ethnology'.
In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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1922
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78:05
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