Robert J. Flaherty

1883

Hall and Company, 1978) Paul Rotha, Flaherty: A Biography Edited b y Jay Ruby.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) Barsam, Richard, The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988) Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life 1883-1922 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

1884

Robert Joseph Flaherty, (; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).

1909

Frances took on the role of director at times helped to edit and distribute her husband's films, even landing governmental film contracts for England. In 1909 he shared stories about information he was told by an Inuk man named Wetallok.

1913

His writing about Wetallok would go on to be published in his book, My Eskimo Friends: "Nanook of the North". ==Nanook of the North== In 1913, on Flaherty's expedition to prospect the Belcher Islands, his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture camera along.

1914

Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951.

It was his enthusiasm and interests in these people that sparked his need to create a new genre of film. In 1914, he married his fiancée Frances Hubbard.

1919

58. ==External links== Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story Hand drawn map by an Inuk man named Wetalltok given to Flaherty in 1919 Literature on Robert J.

1920

In 1920, he secured funds from Revillon Frères, a French fur trade company to shoot what was to become Nanook of the North.

On 15 August 1920, Flaherty arrived in Port Harrison, Quebec to shoot his film.

1921

A few months after he left, she gave birth to his son, Josephie (December 25, 1921 – 1984), whom he never acknowledged.

1923

Flaherty was in Samoa from April 1923 until December 1924, with the film completed in December 1925 and released the following month.

1924

Flaherty was in Samoa from April 1923 until December 1924, with the film completed in December 1925 and released the following month.

1925

Flaherty was in Samoa from April 1923 until December 1924, with the film completed in December 1925 and released the following month.

1928

The story of forced removal of Inuit peoples in Canada in 1953, including Flaherty's illegitimate Inuit son Josephie. Ramsaye, Terry, "Flaherty, Great Adventurer," Photoplay, May 1928, p.

1942

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release. Louisiana Story (1948) was a Flaherty documentary shot by himself and Richard Leacock, about the installation of an oil rig in a Louisiana swamp.

1950

Josephie was one of the Inuit who were relocated in the 1950s to very difficult living conditions in Resolute and Grise Fiord, in the extreme north.

Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary. Academy Award Oscar - Best Documentary Feature 1950 - Story of Michelangelo 1913, Fellow, Royal Geographical Society ==Filmography== Nanook of the North (1922) The Pottery Maker (1925) Moana (1926) The Twenty-four Dollar Island (1927; short documentary on New York City) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Acoma the Sky City (1929; unfinished) Tabu (1931; co-written with F.

1951

Robert Joseph Flaherty, (; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).

Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951.

1953

The story of forced removal of Inuit peoples in Canada in 1953, including Flaherty's illegitimate Inuit son Josephie. Ramsaye, Terry, "Flaherty, Great Adventurer," Photoplay, May 1928, p.

1955

The festival was founded in Flaherty's honor by his widow in 1955. Flaherty's contribution to the advent of the documentary is scrutinized in the 2010 British Universities Film & Video Council award-winning and FOCAL International award-nominated documentary A Boatload of Wild Irishmen, written by Professor Brian Winston of University of Lincoln, UK, and directed by Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.

1960

Flaherty, The Odyssey of a Filmmaker: Robert Flaherty's Story (Urbana, IL: Beta Phi Mu, 1960).

1966

Based on research material by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966) Murphy, William Thomas, Robert Flaherty: A Guide to References and Resources (Boston: G.

1978

Hall and Company, 1978) Paul Rotha, Flaherty: A Biography Edited b y Jay Ruby.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) Barsam, Richard, The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988) Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life 1883-1922 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

1984

A few months after he left, she gave birth to his son, Josephie (December 25, 1921 – 1984), whom he never acknowledged.

Hall and Company, 1978) Paul Rotha, Flaherty: A Biography Edited b y Jay Ruby.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) Barsam, Richard, The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988) Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life 1883-1922 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

1988

Hall and Company, 1978) Paul Rotha, Flaherty: A Biography Edited b y Jay Ruby.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) Barsam, Richard, The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988) Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life 1883-1922 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

1994

The film's title derives from Flaherty's statement that he had been accused, in the staged climactic sequence of Man of Aran, of "trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen". In 1994, Flaherty was portrayed by Charles Dance in the Canadian drama film Kabloonak, a dramatization of the making of Nanook of the North from an Inuit perspective. ==Awards== BAFTA presents the Robert J.

2005

Hall and Company, 1978) Paul Rotha, Flaherty: A Biography Edited b y Jay Ruby.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984) Barsam, Richard, The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988) Christopher, Robert J., Robert & Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life 1883-1922 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) McGrath, Melanie, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

2006

(London: Fourth Estate, 2006).

2007

(New York: Random House, 2007).

2010

The festival was founded in Flaherty's honor by his widow in 1955. Flaherty's contribution to the advent of the documentary is scrutinized in the 2010 British Universities Film & Video Council award-winning and FOCAL International award-nominated documentary A Boatload of Wild Irishmen, written by Professor Brian Winston of University of Lincoln, UK, and directed by Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.




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