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Saul 2022-10-19 13:44:24

I don’t know if you guys know this. After all, the whole class was shocked after the film was released in the ethnography class today. The following is a brief description.

Claude Massot, 1988, "Nanook Revisited", returned to the local area to examine the aftereffects of Nanuk, and the well-known Flaherty had some reconstruction and fraud.

1. Nannuk is a pseudonym. That person is not Nanook. This name Flaherty was taken for European audiences.

2. In the film, the two wives of Nanuk are not the wives of Nanuk, but Flaherty's own wives over there. Nyla also helped Flaherty give birth to a child.

3. This film has interviewed the wife of the illegitimate child (the illegitimate child himself has passed away). He never wanted to recognize Flaherty as his father when he was alive. He recognized his adoptive father, and Flaherty himself had a genuine white match.

Of course, there is no need to talk about other various acting, reconstruction, and fakes. In this film, there are questions and repeats for us to see.

However, I found out that Claude Massot continued to film "Kabloonak" in 1994, which was the film on film of Flaherty to shoot Nanuk. I haven't seen it, but I watched the plot and other people’s narratives on the Internet. It seems that there have been some changes, so I still don’t know if Nanuk and his family in the film are a family. It’s true that Nyla helped Flaherty give birth to a child and that Flaherty has two wives over there, but what is the family? Isn't it just that the neighbors were grouped together as a family ("Nanook Revisited" and the professor said so) or later became a family...


Does anyone have research, please answer...

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Nanook of the North quotes

  • Title Card: The shrill piping of the wind, the rasp and hiss of driving snow, the mournful wolf howls of Nanook's master dog typify the melancholy spirit of the North.

  • Robert Flaherty, Director: At last, in 1920, I thought I had shot enough scenes to make the film, and prepared to go home. Poor old Nanook hung around my cabin, talking over films we still could make if I would only stay on for another year. He never understood why I should have gone to all the fuss and bother of making the "big aggie" of him. Less than two years later I received word that Nanook had ventured into the interior hoping for deer and had starved to death. But our "big aggie" become "Nanook of the North" has gone into most of the odd corners of the world, and more men than there are stones around the shore of Nanook's home have looked upon Nanook, the kindly, brave, simple Eskimo.