Nanook Of The North

 Nanook Of The North was created by Robert Flaherty in 1922 as a film about the life of an Inuitcanoenanook.jpg named Nanook. Nanook is rugged, industrious, and clearly a survivor. We see him build a masterful igloo in under an hour. Teach his children how to hunt through playful games that build skills that will inable them to survive in the isolated land. A portrait is painted of Nanook's family and the viewer certainly feels for each member. However there are scenes and aspects of Nanook of the North that were manipulated and actually created all together by Flaherty. The "members" of Nanook's family were not actually the people that they were presented as. This approach of narrative fiction to present the life of people as it took place in the past is not clearly communicated to the viewer. At the time of filming the presence of guns for hunting had been for some time. He hunts a monster of a walrus with the perseverance of a thousand men either way. And Nanook could catch fish in a manner that will surely impress the most skilled anglers. Nanook Of The North is at times comical, and at times very beautiful. Robert Flaherty though not an anthropologist is credited with constructing a truly stunning documentary about the everyday life of and Inuit called Nanook.

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Nanook Of The North can be purchased at online stores such as Amazon.
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