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Robert Joseph Flaherty (16 February 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan - 23 July 1951, Dummerston, Vermont) was a filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film (Nanook of the North) in 1922. Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Iron Mountain is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8154 Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Dummerston is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Nanook of the North ( 1922) is a silent Documentary film by Robert J Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. He was married to writer Frances H. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances Hubbard Flaherty (1884-1972 was married to acclaimed Documentary filmmaker Robert J Frances worked on several of Flaherty's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story (1948). "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Louisiana Story ( 1948) is a 78-minute black-and-white American film

Side by side with Dziga Vertov, Flaherty is considered as one of the pioneers of documentary film. Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов Дзиґа Вертов January 15, 1896 &ndash February 12, 1954) was a Soviet pioneer Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality He is the father of docufiction (Moana - 1926). Docufiction (often understood as Docudrama) is a Neologism which refers to a cinematographic work in a Genre mixing Fiction and Moana ( 1926) is a Documentary film, the first Docufiction in the history of cinema, directed by Robert J

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Early life

Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty (an Irish Protestant) and Susan Klockner (a German Roman Catholic); he was sent to Upper Canada College for his education. Prospecting is the physical search for Minerals Fossils precious metals or mineral specimens and is also known as Fossicking. The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Upper Canada College (UCC is a private elementary and Secondary school for boys in downtown Toronto, Canada. Flaherty began his career as a prospector in the Hudson Bay region of Canada, working for a railroad company.

Film career

In 1913, on his third expedition to the area, his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture camera along so that he could record the unfamiliar wildlife and people he encountered. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He was particularly intrigued by the life of the local Inuit people, and spent so much time filming them that he had begun to neglect his real work. Inuit (plural the singular Inuk, means "man" or "person" is a general term for a group of culturally similar Indigenous peoples inhabiting On the other hand, he received an avid response from anyone who saw the footage he shot.

To make the film, Flaherty lived with an Inuit man, Allakariallak, and his family for some time before beginning filming. The silver nitrate film was destroyed in a fire started from his cigarette and so Flaherty returned and reshot the film. Silver nitrate also known as lunar caustic is a soluble Chemical compound with Chemical formula Ag[[Nitrogen N]] O 3 He later claimed that this was to his advantage, since he was unhappy with the original footage. According to him, it was too much like a travelogue and lacked a cohesive plot.

For the new film, Flaherty staged almost everything, including the ending, where Allakariallak and his family are supposedly at risk of dying if they could not find or build shelter quickly enough. The igloo had been built beforehand, with a side cut away for light so that Flaherty's camera could get a good shot. Flaherty also insisted that the Eskimos not use rifles to hunt, though they had become common, and pretended at one point that he could not hear the hunters' pleas for help, instead continuing filming their struggle and putting them in greater danger. Eskimos or Esquimaux are Indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia ( Russia) across

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North (1922) was a successful film, and Flaherty was in great demand afterwards. Nanook of the North ( 1922) is a silent Documentary film by Robert J Events November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general On a contract with Paramount to produce another film on the order of Nanook, Flaherty went to Samoa to film Moana (1926). Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands Archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean Moana ( 1926) is a Documentary film, the first Docufiction in the history of cinema, directed by Robert J Events August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film Don Juan. The studio heads repeatedly asked for daily rushes but Flaherty had nothing to show because he had not filmed anything yet — his method was to live with his subjects as a participant-observer, becoming familiar with their way of life before building a story around it to film. Dailies, in Filmmaking, is the term used to describe the raw unedited Footage shot during the making of a Motion picture. Flaherty was also concerned that there was no inherent conflict in the peoples' way of life, providing further incentive not to shoot anything. Eventually he decided to build the film around the ritual of a boy's entry to manhood. Flaherty was in Samoa from April 1923 until December 1924, with the film completed in December 1925 and released in January 1926. The film, on its release, was not as successful as Nanook of the North.

Louisiana Story (1948) was another heavily fictionalized "documentary," this one about the installation of an oil rig in a Louisiana swamp. Louisiana Story ( 1948) is a 78-minute black-and-white American film The year 1948 in film involved some significant events Events Laurence Olivier 's Hamlet becomes the An oil platform or oil rig is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and/or extract oil and Natural gas through wells The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America The film stresses the oil rig's peaceful and unproblematic coexistence with the surrounding environment, and was in fact funded by Standard Oil, a petroleum company. Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing transporting refining and marketing company The main character of the film is a Cajun boy. Cajuns ('keʒən les Cadiens are an Ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other The poetry of childhood and nature, some critics would argue, is used to make the exploitation of men and nature look beautiful. Virgil Thomson did the music for the film. For the American author with a similar name see Virgil Thompson (author Virgil Thomson ( November 25, 1896 - September

Filmography

Robert J. Louisiana Story ( 1948) is a 78-minute black-and-white American film Flaherty Award

BAFTA presents the Robert J. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary. [1]

References

  1. ^ BAFTA's Robert J. Flaherty Award

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Robert J. The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television screenonline is a Web site devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Social history as revealed by film and television Flaherty

Nanook of the North (1922) • Moana (1926) • The Twenty-four Dollar Island (1927) • Tabu (1931) • Industrial Britain (1931) Man of Aran (1934) • Elephant Boy (1937) • The Land (1942) • Louisiana Story (1948)
Nanook of the North ( 1922) is a silent Documentary film by Robert J Moana ( 1926) is a Documentary film, the first Docufiction in the history of cinema, directed by Robert J Tabu (also called Tabu a Story of the South Seas) is a 1931 film which tells the story of two lovers in the South Seas who must escape their Man of Aran ( 1934) is a Documentary film by Robert J Flaherty, a Docufiction on life on the Aran Islands off the Elephant Boy ( 1937) is a British film directed by Documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, and produced by Alexander Korda Louisiana Story ( 1948) is a 78-minute black-and-white American film
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