Robert J. Flaherty - Nanook of the North (1922)

English Title: Nanook of the North

French Title: Nanouk l' Esquimau

Director: Robert J. Flaherty

Year: 1922

Language: n/a

Subtitles: english intertitles

Size: 700 MB (or 717,436 KB or 734,654,464 bytes)

Video Codec: DivX 3 Low-Motion

Video Bitrate: 1154 kb/s

Resolution: 512x384 (1.33:1) [=4:3]

Qf: 0.245 bits/pixel

Framerate: 23.976

Audio Specs: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3

Audio Bitrate: 88 kb/s (44/ch, stereo) VBR

Fs: 32000 Hz

Runtime: 01:18:25 (112,819 fr)

Source: DVD



Description: Nanook of the North is regarded as the first significant nonfiction feature, made in the days before the term "documentary" had even been coined. Filmmaker Robert Flaherty had lived among the Eskimos in Canada for many years as a prospector and explorer, and he had shot some footage of them on an informal basis before he decided to make a more formal record of their daily lives. Financing was provided by Revillion Freres, a French fur company with an outpost on the shores of Hudson Bay. Filming took place between August 1920, and August 1921, mostly on the Ungava Peninsula of Hudson Bay. Flaherty employed two recently developed Akeley gyroscope cameras which required minimum lubrication; this allowed him to tilt and pan for certain shots even in cold weather. He also set up equipment to develop and print his footage on location and show it in a makeshift theater to his subjects. Rather than simply record events as they happened, Flaherty staged scenes -- fishing, hunting, building an igloo -- to carry along his narrative. The film's tremendous success confirmed Flaherty's status as a first-rate storyteller and keen observer of man's fragile relationship with the harshest environmental conditions. (In a sadly appropriate footnote, Nanook, the subject of the film, died of starvation not long after the film's release.)





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