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A boatload of wild Irishmen / Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín presents ; directed by Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín ; written by Brian Winston ; producer, Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD PN1995.9.D6 B53 2010
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Inupiaq
- Irish
- Subjects (All):
- Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.
- Flaherty, Robert Joseph.
- Nanook of the North (Motion picture).
- Man of Aran (Motion picture).
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Documentary films--Production and direction.
- Documentary films.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Icarus Films, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English, Irish Gaelic and Inuit with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R; NTSC, stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Examines Robert Flaherty's career as "the father of the modern documentary film" and the dispute about his staged scenes. Includes excerpts from his films as well as telling interviews with the people whose parents and grandparents Flaherty put onto the cinema screens of the world: Inuit, Samoans and the 'wild men' of Aran.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Mac Dara Ó Fatharta ; interviews and contributions from Robert Flaherty, Richard Leacock (cameraman on "Louisiana Story", 1948), Martha Flaherty (Flaherty's Inuit granddaughter), George Stoney (documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University), Seán Crosson (film scholar at the Huston School of Film), Jay Ruby (anthropologist and film scholar at Temple University), Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (musician and folklorist from Árainn).
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Alan Wilson ... [et al.] ; editors, Chris Hainstock and Mikey Flaherty ; music, Steve McGrath.
- Notes:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- Originally produced in 2010.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 761338930
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