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  1. Man of Aran (1934)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £11.50

    Robert Flaherty is one of the founding figures of the documentary film, and this portrait of the Herculean struggles of the Aran islanders for existence in the teeth of the untamed forces of nature also...

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  2. Looking for the Man of Aran (1995 Video)

    Director
    Sebastian Eschenbach
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    It is 60 years since Robert Flaherty made MAN OF ARAN. Looks at how the people of the Aran Islands remember the experience and what they feel about the image the films give of their land.

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  3. How the Myth was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty’s "Man of Aran" (1979)

    Director
    George C Stoney
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

    George C. Stoney revisits the island made famous in Robert Flaherty’s documentary MAN OF ARAN, and speaks with some of the surviving islanders who took part in the original film, asking them about their...

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  4. Moana (1923 Film)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.

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  5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

    Director
    F W Murnau
    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £19.99

    In 1929, German filmmaker F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise), invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran) to collaborate on a film to be be shot on location...

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  6. Nanook of the North (1922 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the Eskimos of Ungava in the Cape Dufferin area of the Hudson Bay Territory of northern Canada. A detailed description of the constant battle with a hostile environment; accounts of walrus and...

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  7. Industrial Britain (1931 Video)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

    Looks at the craftsmanship involved in industrial processes. Shows both glassmaking and glassblowing for industrial and domestic use. In a steel works molten iron is poured into moulds. Steelwork is erected...

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