Nanook of the North : a story of life and love in the actual Arctic / Pathépicture ; Revillon Frères presents ; written, produced, directed, photographed and edited by Robert J. Flaherty.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951, screenwriter, director, producer, editor.

Flaherty, Frances, narrator.

Shepard, David, editor.

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.

Film Preservation Associates.

Pathé Exchange, producer.

Revillon Frères Trading Company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 33.

The Criterion collection ; 33

Subjects (All):

Eskimos--Québec (Province).

Eskimos.

Inuit--Québec (Province).

Inuit.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Québec (Province).

Human beings.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Genre:

Silent films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] pages : illustrations ; 19 x 38 cm folded to 19 x 13 cm).

monochrome

Other Title:

Title on container: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Criterion Collection, [1998]

Language Note:

Silent film with English intertitles.

System Details:

DVD; stereo.

digital

optical

stereo

video file

DVD video

Summary:

A documentary about the communal life of the Eskimos and their struggle for existence. Special features includes excerpts from the 1958 TV documentary: Flaherty and film : Mrs. Frances Flaherty remembers Nanook of the North (8 min.); still gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.

Credits:

Music composed, compiled, and conducted by Timothy Brock; performed by members of the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.

Notes:

"Previously unpublished materials in supplementary section copyright 1998 School of Theology at Claremont, California." -- container.

This movie predates the book My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty.

This edition matches the original projection time. New digital transfer presented in its original aspect ratio of 1:33:1. Timothy Brock's new orchestral score was digitally recorded in May 1998. Film restoration and transfer supervision, David Shepard/Film Preservation Associates; video editor Bret Hampton, telecine colorist, Russell Bishop.

Special features: excerpts from the television documentary Flaherty and film; stills gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.

Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1922.

Related Work:

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951. My Eskimo friends.

ISBN:

1559408960

OCLC:

41032801

Publisher Number:

715515009829

CC15490 Criterion Collection