Nanook of the North [SEP] film editor
Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 American silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, with elements of docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.
In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. Some have criticized Flaherty for
was dominated by actualities—short pictures of real people in real places. Robert Flaherty's great innovation was simply to combine the two forms of actuality, infusing the exotic journey with the details of indigenous work and play and life.
Home media.
In 1999, "Nanook of the North" was digitally remastered and released on DVD by The Criterion Collection. It includes an interview with Flaherty's widow (and "Nanook of the North" co-editor), Frances Flaherty, photos from Flaherty's trip to