The Arctic animal documentary "White Planet" released in 2006 was directed by French director Lagobert, and a little polar bear in the film was named "Nanu". This is the French director paying tribute to Flaherty.
From the birth of the film to the era of "Nanuk of the North", adventure films have been one of the important types of films shown in cinemas and theaters. One of the most famous is the Antarctic documentary by Herbert Bundin. At that time, this kind of documentary filmed in a place far from civilization was called adventure film by filmmakers.
Flaherty is an Irish-American and a good prospector. He discovered the Balsh Islands in northern Canada, the largest of which was later named after Flaherty.
In 1912, before Flaherty went to explore Greenland, his boss, on a whim, suggested that he bring a camera and come back with something interesting to open their eyes. From this year, Flaherty became obsessed with photography. The company owner lost an excellent prospecting engineer, and the film industry gained a documentary master.
Nanook is the name of an Eskimo whose family lives on the northern coast of Canada. This documentary takes the form of a rehearsal. That is, the filming is not a follow-up, but rather having the Eskimos act out their lives in front of the camera.
The film begins with a panoramic shot from a boat. The camera shakes rhythmically, but keeps the picture clear, with many ice floes passing quickly over the sea. That's the effect of a ship sailing on the sea. Nanuk the Eskimo appeared, paddling a small boat wrapped in sealskin.
The boat docked. Nanook disembarked and pulled his eldest son, second son, his wife (who also had a baby in her arms), his third son, and finally a puppy from the boat.… Seeing this, the audience will be surprised: oh, buy a lump, so many people and things are loaded in such a small boat.
From this film, you can see how the Eskimos did business with white people at that time. Bundles of polar bear and arctic fox fur in exchange for cookies, candy, and knives.
You can also see how the Eskimos used a knife to build a block of snow bricks into a house "Igloo", and made a skylight for Igloo. How to catch walruses, seals, fish, arctic foxes.
Life in the ice and snow is difficult, and the Nanook family often has to travel for half a day to catch a seal. After the seals are caught, they eat them on the spot, raw. They are all raw food. The Nanook family is very hardy. In summer, the summer is also a few degrees below zero, and their less than one-year-old baby is shirtless in the snow, playing with the puppy. See me ashamed. Some time ago, the average temperature in Chengdu was 12 or 3 degrees, and I felt unreasonably cold, so I turned on the air conditioner and electric blanket every day. Maybe it's a food thing?
The Nanuk family in the film looks like a Mongolian race. Like the Indians, the Eskimos crossed the Bering Strait from northern China to the Americas. The Indians arrived earlier, about 40,000 years ago; the Eskimos arrived later, about 10,000 years ago. More than 10,000 years ago, when the Chinese nation had just entered the Neolithic Age, it was the legendary Yan and Yellow Age. I don't know what caused them to go to that cold place.
Our ancestors, most likely, looked like Nanook and his family.
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