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    Nanook of the North is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating...
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  • violations of taboos. The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary.[citation needed] The Inuit believed that Nanook, the...
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    Robert J. Flaherty (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and...
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    work of docufiction, which was directed by Robert J. Flaherty, creator of Nanook of the North (1922). Moana was filmed in Samoa (then under the Western...
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    With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism. Flaherty filmed a number of heavily staged romantic documentary...
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  • 24, 2022. "The Kid (1921)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 24, 2022. Retrieved August 24, 2022. "Nanook of the North (1922)". Rotten...
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    connection to Nanook of the North. Columbia demanded Starr change the name of the group. Subsequently, they settled on New Kids on the Block, after a...
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    of filmmaking that captures a civilization or people's former way of living. The best example of this would be Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North....
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  • also refer to: Nanook (band), Greenlandic pop rock band Nanook (TV series), whose title character is named Nanook Nanook of the North (1922), a film by...
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    Flaherty is considered to be the forefather of ethnographic film. He is most famous for his 1922 film Nanook of the North. Flaherty's attempts to realistically...
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