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Title:

Nanook of the North [videorecording] / Revillon Frères ; produced by Robert J. Flaherty.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

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

Subject:

Eskimos--Québec (Province)
Inuit--Québec (Province)
Documentary films.
Silent films.

Other Authors:

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.
Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951. My Eskimo friends.
Revillon Frères Trading Company.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Originally produced in 1922 as a silent motion picture. Based on the book: My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty. 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.

Contents:

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.

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.

Series:

Criterion collection

ISBN:

9781559408967
1559408960

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41032801

UPC:

715515009829

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

DNPA403 -- Stanhope Public Library (Stanhope)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)