The earliest of all films were, by the broadest definition, documentaries. However, it took long time for the word to enter into vocabularies and the documentary got its proper form relatively late, at leats in comparison with other genres. One of the most important events in that process was production of *Nanook of the North*, 1922 film directed by Robert J. Flaherty, known as the first feature documentary and one…More
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Nanook of the North
1922
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 films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, the film follows the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. It is written and directed by Robert J.…
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