Nanook of the North
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Silent film with English intertitles.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [1998]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (79 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A documentary on Inuit hunter Nanook as he struggles to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region.
Notes
Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1922.
Special features: New orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock ; excerpts from the television documentary Flaherty and film, featuring interviews with the filmmaker's widow and Nanook co-editor Frances Flaherty ; stills gallery of Flaherty's life in the Arctic.