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Nanook of the North
Posted by: Jay Dixon | October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Nanook of the North
After discussing this film within our course it led me to want to watch and know more.
The Wikipedia search on the film raised many of the same questions that were brought up in our discussions. For example “Flaherty has been criticized for deceptively portraying staged events as reality. Much of the action was staged and gives an inaccurate view of real Inuit life during the early 20th century. “Nanook” was in fact named Allakariallak, for instance, while the “wife” shown in the film was not really his wife. And although Allakariallak normally used a gun when hunting, Flaherty encouraged him to hunt after the fashion of his ancestors in order to capture what was believed to be the way the Inuit lived.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_of_the_North
This film in my opinion was ahead of its time and to this day regardless if criticism is a valuable piece of Canadian history. Below are a few more links connecting to Nanook:
How I Filmed Nanook of the North
There are also quite a few clips like these online::
[youtube]https://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=H_wS-Li-9eE[/youtube]
[youtube]https://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmHvkrhmII[/youtube]