Wedding of Palo. Nanook revisited. Capitain Kleinschmidt's Arctic hunt. Primitive love. Houses of the Arctic. Eskimo hunters of northwestern Alaska. Face of the high Arctic.
Notes:
Nanook of the North: based on the book: My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty. Not rated. Nanook of the North: videodisc release of the 1922 American/French silent motion picture by Revillon Frères. The wedding of Palo: videodisc release of the motion picture originally released in Denmark by Palladium, 1935. Booklet (31 p. ; ill.) with excerpts from My Eskimo friends by Robert Flaherty and an essay "Knud Rasmussen and The wedding of Palo" by Lawrence Millman is inserted in container. This collection also contains six bonus films: Nanook revisited (1988 ; 64 min.); Capitain Kleinschmidt's Arctic hunt (1913 ; 15 min.); Primitive love (1927 ; 32 min.); Houses of the Arctic (1928 ; 11 min.); Eskimo hunters of northwestern Alaska (1949 ; 20 min.); Face of the high Arctic (1959 ; 14 min.).
Summary:
Nanook of the North: 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. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes. The wedding of Palo, Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Traditional eskimo culture is embodied in this early ethnographic film of life in Greenland focusing around the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuit woman.
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