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Nanook of the North

Call Number

  • DVD 970.00497 N186 (CEN)

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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.

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