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    Nanook of the North is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating...
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  • violations of taboos. The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary.[citation needed] The Inuit believed that Nanook, the...
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    Robert J. Flaherty (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and...
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    work of docufiction, which was directed by Robert J. Flaherty, creator of Nanook of the North (1922). Moana was filmed in Samoa (then under the Western...
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    With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism. Flaherty filmed a number of heavily staged romantic documentary...
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  • 24, 2022. "The Kid (1921)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 24, 2022. Retrieved August 24, 2022. "Nanook of the North (1922)". Rotten...
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  • also refer to: Nanook (band), Greenlandic pop rock band Nanook (TV series), whose title character is named Nanook Nanook of the North (1922), a film by...
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    of filmmaking that captures a civilization or people's former way of living. The best example of this would be Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North....
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    connection to Nanook of the North. Columbia demanded Starr change the name of the group. Subsequently, they settled on New Kids on the Block, after a...
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  • Hollywood, Michael Balcon of Gaumont British hired the acclaimed writer/director Robert Flaherty and his wife Frances (Nanook of the North (1922), Moana (1926)...
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    Flaherty is considered to be the forefather of ethnographic film. He is most famous for his 1922 film Nanook of the North. Flaherty's attempts to realistically...
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    the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook...
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  • Wives, The Little Rascals, Blood and Sand, Nanook of the North, Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler; the Motion Picture...
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    Stories of Some of Our Lives, The Times of Harvey Milk Robert J. Flaherty: Nanook of the North, Louisiana Story Robert Florey: The Life and Death of 9413:...
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  • Panchali as "perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North". In her 1982 book 5001 Nights at the Movies, Pauline...
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    Tanya Tagaq (category Members of the Order of Canada)
    Festival commissioned Tagaq to create a live soundscape for Nanook of the North, as part of the festival's film retrospective First Peoples Cinema: 1500...
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    Lillian Alling (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States)
    canoe, and dog sled from the east coast of Canada to the west coast, which took over two years to complete. Nanook of the North (1922) is silent-film documentary...
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    Operation Nanook (OP NANOOK; French: Opération Nanook) is an annual sovereignty operation and manoeuvre warfare exercise conducted by the Canadian Armed...
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  • Kabloonak (category Films shot in the Northwest Territories)
    1994. The film is about the making of Nanook of the North, a 1922 film about an Inuk called Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The film's...
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  • première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. November 26 – The Toll of the Sea...
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  • Sight and Sound (category 1932 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    votes) Night and Fog (56 votes) The Thin Blue Line (49 votes) Chronique d'un été (32 votes) Nanook of the North (31 votes) The Gleaners and I (27 votes) Dont...
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  • Ed Wardle (category British summiters of Mount Everest)
    and dog sled from the east coast of Canada to the west coast, a project which took over two years to complete Nanook of the North (1922), silent film...
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    investigation of physical evidence. It is considered a branch of anthropology in North America and Asia, while in Europe, archaeology is viewed as a discipline...
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    series which is distributed across the world. Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film Nanook of the North is typically cited as the first feature-length documentary...
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    Operation Nanook was an Arctic expedition undertaken by the United States Navy in 1946. It consisted of USS Norton Sound (AV-11), USS Atule (SS-403),...
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    of recording targeted populations during field work which are called “salvage ethnography” or “salvage anthropology.” Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922)...
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    in the Cameroons, 1931 Gorilla Drive, Cameroons, 1931 Osonigbe Juju House and Benin Brass Cutting, 1931 Robert J. Flaherty – US Nanook of the North, 1922...
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    Flaherty, probably best known for his films chronicling the lives of Arctic peoples (Nanook of the North, 1922), became a filmmaker in 1913 when his supervisor...
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  • Origin of Everyday Things. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 254. ISBN 1-4027-4302-5. Inuit hero Nanook from the silent documentary film Nanook of the North...
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  • Hunter" - The making of Nanook of the North, the first true documentary film "Expo 67: Back to the Future" - The success of the World's Fair in Montreal...
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