Nanook of the North Creative background

2022-06-07 20:24
Robert Flaherty is a geologist. I came to the Eskimo activity area on the east coast of Hudson Bay in Canada for work needs and lived for 11 years.  . Beginning in 1910, he was ordered to explore mines in Hudson Bay, Alaska, and brought a camera with him. He shot some scenes of the production and life of Eskimos on the Arctic coast, but the film was destroyed by a fire. In 1920, he returned to the Eskimo village again under the patronage of the French leather goods dealers Levyon brothers and filmed the film again.  .
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  • Title Card: The shrill piping of the wind, the rasp and hiss of driving snow, the mournful wolf howls of Nanook's master dog typify the melancholy spirit of the North.

  • Robert Flaherty, Director: At last, in 1920, I thought I had shot enough scenes to make the film, and prepared to go home. Poor old Nanook hung around my cabin, talking over films we still could make if I would only stay on for another year. He never understood why I should have gone to all the fuss and bother of making the "big aggie" of him. Less than two years later I received word that Nanook had ventured into the interior hoping for deer and had starved to death. But our "big aggie" become "Nanook of the North" has gone into most of the odd corners of the world, and more men than there are stones around the shore of Nanook's home have looked upon Nanook, the kindly, brave, simple Eskimo.

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