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Nanook of the North was photographed in Port Harrison, northern Quebec, in 1920-1921 by Robert Joseph Flaherty.
It was the first successful documentary ever and a true benchmark of ethnographic cinema.
Robert Flaherty brought a completely unknown culture to the Western world.
Documenting a year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family.
Describes a group of people who traded, hunted, fished, and migrated untouched by industrial technology.
Nanook of the North was widely screened and has been hailed as the first full-length anthropological documentary in film history.
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