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    Robert Joseph Flaherty, FRGS (/ˈflæ.ərti, ˈflɑː-/; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially...
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    Nanook of the North (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    written and directed by Robert J. Flaherty, who also served as cinematographer, editor, and producer. Some have criticized Flaherty for staging several sequences...
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    visual anthropologist Robert J. Flaherty. "Flaherty Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. "Flaherty Island". geonames.org....
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    Moana (1926 film) (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    film, or more strictly a work of docufiction, which was directed by Robert J. Flaherty, creator of Nanook of the North (1922). Moana was filmed in Samoa...
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    the film Tabu (1931) with documentary film pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, although disputes with Flaherty led Murnau to finish the film on his own. A week...
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    involves a way of making films already practiced by such authors as Robert J. Flaherty, one of the fathers of documentary, and Jean Rouch, later in the 20th...
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    Louisiana Story (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    film directed and produced by Robert J. Flaherty. Its script was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty. Although it has historically been...
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  • 1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920) 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951) 1887 – Kathleen Clifford...
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    Benedict Century Professor Mandry 1994 China Moon Rupert Munro Kabloonak Robert J. Flaherty Paris Film Festival Award for Best Actor Shortcut to Paradise Quinn...
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  • the Peoples International Film Festival") in Florence, Italy, the Robert J. Flaherty Award given by the City College of New York, and was a featured film...
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  • Man of Aran (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    fictional documentary (ethnofiction) film shot, written and directed by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It...
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    Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J. Flaherty Robert Gardner Alfred Gell Robert Hugh Layton Claude Lévi-Strauss Alan Lomax John Marshall...
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  • Fellini Emerald Fennell Abel Ferrara Louis Feuillade David Fincher Robert J. Flaherty Mike Flanagan John Ford Miloš Forman Bob Fosse Jesús Franco John Frankenheimer...
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  • de La Falaise United States The Merry Widow Ernst Lubitsch Moana Robert J. Flaherty Nosferatu – A Symphony Of Horror Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens...
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    University by John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner. It won the 1957 Robert J. Flaherty Award for best documentary film from the City College...
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    Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    which is derived the English word "taboo". The story was written by Robert J. Flaherty and Murnau; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was...
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    filmmaker Robert J. 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...
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  • The Pottery Maker (category Films directed by Robert Flaherty)
    directed by Robert J. Flaherty. The Pottery Maker is one of two short films produced by private sponsors and directed by filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty after...
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    Ax Fight at IMDb Biella, Chagnon and Seaman Yanomamo Interactive The Ax Fight Gregory, J. 2000. "Macho Anthropology." Salon.com, September 28, 2000....
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    of living. The best example of this would be Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. In Nanook, Flaherty staged incidents and scenes that did not fairly...
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    In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. In 1939, Grierson established the all-time Canadian film institutional...
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  • Elvira Fischer Terence Fisher Dallas M. Fitzgerald George Fitzmaurice Robert J. Flaherty Mike Flanagan Gary Fleder Dave Fleischer Max Fleischer Richard Fleischer...
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    contributing to the making of Man of Aran, the classic documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, her mother stayed in the U.S. to bring up the 8 children. Mullen...
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    Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven Robert J. Flaherty: Nanook of the North, Louisiana Story Robert Florey: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood...
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    Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J. Flaherty Robert Gardner Alfred Gell Robert Hugh Layton Claude Lévi-Strauss Alan Lomax John Marshall...
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  • expressionist works of F. W. Murnau and Robert Wiene, French Surrealist shorts by Germaine Dulac and Man Ray, Robert J. Flaherty, Carl Theodor Dreyer and particularly...
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    creativity. Journal of Anatomy 216(2) : 158-176. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2009.01160.x Robert Layton. (1981) The Anthropology of Art. Howard Morphy & Morgan...
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    of the pe'a on film is seen in Moana (1926), directed by American Robert J. Flaherty and filmed in Safune on the island of Savai'i. The film shows the...
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    Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J. Flaherty Robert Gardner Alfred Gell Robert Hugh Layton Claude Lévi-Strauss Alan Lomax John Marshall...
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    locations. The relocatees included Inuit who had been featured in Robert J. Flaherty's film Nanook of the North (1922), recorded prior to the relocation...
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