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Nanook of the North : The wedding of Palo and other films of Arctic life /

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Nanook of the North: presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. Contains both documentary...

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Uniform Title:Nanook of the North (Motion picture)
Main Author: Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933 (Author, Screenwriter)
Corporate Authors: Palladium Productions, Revillon Frères Trading Company, Flicker Alley (Firm), Film Preservation Associates
Other Authors: Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951, Masino, Jeffery (Producer), Shepard, David (Producer), Dalsheim, Friedrich (Director), Millman, Lawrence
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:No linguistic content
Language Notes:Silent films with English intertitles.
Published: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, [2013]
Edition:2 disc Blu-Ray deluxe ed.
Series:Flicker Alley collection.
Subjects:
Eskimos > Québec (Province)
Inuit > Québec (Province)
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Québec (Province)
Québec (Province) > Social conditions.
Ammassalimiut Eskimos > Greenland > Drama.
Inuit > Greenland > Drama.
Motion pictures in ethnology > Greenland.
Greenland > Social life and customs > Drama.
Flaherty, Robert Joseph, > 1884-1951 > Film adaptations.
Documentary-style films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Silent films.
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Summary:Nanook of the North: presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes.
The wedding of Palo, Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Traditional eskimo culture is embodied in this early ethnographic film of life in Greenland focusing around the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuit woman.
Item Description:Nanook of the North: based on the book: My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty.
Not rated.
Nanook of the North: videodisc release of the 1922 American/French silent motion picture by Revillon Frères.
The wedding of Palo: videodisc release of the motion picture originally released in Denmark by Palladium, 1935.
Booklet (31 pages ; ill.) with excerpts from My Eskimo friends by Robert Flaherty and an essay "Knud Rasmussen and The wedding of Palo" by Lawrence Millman is inserted in container.
This collection also contains six bonus films: Nanook revisited (1988 ; 64 min.); Capitain Kleinschmidt's Arctic hunt (1913 ; 15 min.); Primitive love (1927 ; 32 min.); Houses of the Arctic (1928 ; 11 min.); Eskimo hunters of northwestern Alaska (1949 ; 20 min.); Face of the high Arctic (1959 ; 14 min.).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (281 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages ; 16 cm).
Format:Blu-ray discs; A,B,C regions; digitally remastered; mastered in HD; aspect ratio: 1.33:1; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:Nanook of the North (1922 ; 79 min.): Revillon Fréres present ; director and cinematographer, Robert J. Flaherty ; film restoration and transfer supervision, David Shepard/Film Preservation Associates ; video editor Bret Hampton ; telecine colorist, Russell Bishop.
The wedding of Palo (original title: Palos Brudefaerd, 1934 ; 72 min.): produced by Palladium Films; Director, Friedrich Dalsheim ; writer, Knud Rasmussen ; photographer, Hans Scheib.
ISBN:1893967808
9781893967809