The audience sees Nanook, often with his family, hunt a walrus, build an igloo, go about his day, and perform other tasks. ==Production== ===Development=== In 1910, Flaherty was hired by Sir William Mackenzie as an explorer and prospector searching for iron ore and other mineral deposits along the Hudson Bay for the Canadian Northern Railway.
Learning about the lands and people there, Flaherty decided to bring a glass-plate still camera and movie camera with him on his third expedition in 1913.
Knowing nothing about film, Flaherty took a three-week course on cinematography in Rochester, New York. ===Filming=== Using a Bell & Howell camera, a portable developing and printing machine, and some lighting equipment, Flaherty spent 1914 and 1915 shooting hours of film of Inuit life.
Knowing nothing about film, Flaherty took a three-week course on cinematography in Rochester, New York. ===Filming=== Using a Bell & Howell camera, a portable developing and printing machine, and some lighting equipment, Flaherty spent 1914 and 1915 shooting hours of film of Inuit life.
By 1916, Flaherty had enough footage to begin test screenings and was met with wide enthusiasm.
However, in 1916, Flaherty dropped a cigarette onto the original camera negative (which was highly flammable nitrate stock) and lost 30,000 feet of film.
Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.
Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.
Nanook of the North is a 1922 American silent documentary film by Robert J.
It was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Chase, and starred Snub Pollard with Marie Mosquini and James Finlayson. Kabloonak is a 1994 film about the making of Nanook of the North.
Robert Flaherty's great innovation was simply to combine the two forms of actuality, infusing the exotic journey with the details of indigenous work and play and life. ==Home media== In 1999, Nanook of the North was digitally remastered and released on DVD by The Criterion Collection.
In 2005, film critic Roger Ebert described the film's central figure, Nanook, as "one of the most vital and unforgettable human beings ever recorded on film." In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Nanook of the North the seventh-best documentary film of all time. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 8.68/10.
In 2005, film critic Roger Ebert described the film's central figure, Nanook, as "one of the most vital and unforgettable human beings ever recorded on film." In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Nanook of the North the seventh-best documentary film of all time. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 8.68/10.
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