Nanook of the North

(DVD - - 1998)

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Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.

Title: Nanook of the North
[videorecording]

Publisher: [irvington, N.Y.] :, Criterion Collection,, c1998.

Characteristics: 1 videodisc (DVD) (79 min.) :,b&w ;,4 3/4 in.

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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) - 33.
Criterion collection - 33

Notes: Videodisc release of the 1922 American/French silent motion picture by Revillon Frères.
Special features: New digital transfer -- New orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock -- Exceprts from the television documentary Flaherty and Film, featuring interviews with the filmmaker's widow and Nanook co-editor Frances Flaherty -- Stills gallery of Flaherty's phtoographs of life in the Arctic.
Digital transfer, remastered at the visually correct speed ; orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock ; excerpts from the 1958 documentary: Flaherty and film : Mrs. Frances Flaherty remembers Nanook of the North (8 min.) ; stills gallery of Flaherty's life in the Arctic.
Based on the book: My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty.
Silent film with stero score and English intertitles.
Not rated.

Contents: Special features: New digital transfer
New orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock
Excerpts from the television documentary Flaherty and Film, featuring interviews with the filmmaker's widow and Nanook co-editor Frances Flaherty
Stills gallery of Flaherty's phtoographs of life in the Arctic.

Credits: Producer, Robert J. Flaherty ; film restoration and transfer supervision, David Shepard/Film Preservation Associates ; video editor Bret Hampton ; telecine colorist, Russell Bishop.

Summary: Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.

Subject Headings: Inuit Québec (Province) Video recordings.
Eskimos Québec (Province) Video recordings.

Genre/Form: Silent films
Documentary films

Topical Term: Inuit
Eskimos

Additional Contributors: Flaherty, Robert Joseph - My Eskimo friends. - 1884-1951.

Alternate Title: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North [videorecording]

ISBN: 9781559408967
1559408960

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ohialehuadef rated this: 4.5 stars out of 5.

If you have any interest in the north, and any knowledge of the current situation in Nunavut, I highly recommend this DVD. Make sure you watch the extras...

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