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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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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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