Sometimes called “the father of the motion-picture documentary,” Robert Flaherty is one of the legendary figures in the history of film. He was the first to bring the motion-picture camera to some of the world’s inaccessible places, such as Arctic regions, to film the traditional fishing life of the Eskimos. Nanook of the North (1922), probably his most well known work, Flaherty treated the camera as a tool of “recording,” emphasizing on-location shooting with real scenes, real characters, and shooting-time equaling screen-time which influenced the later documentarists.
Louisiana Story (1948)、Elephant Boy (1937)、Tabu (1931)、Moana (1926)、Nanook of the North (1922)
Customs of Polynesian natives on a Samoan island, centered on the daily life and on the coming of age ceremony of the young man Moana. It reconstructs Polynesian culture before the coming of Western culture, though iron blades are used. Daily tasks like cooking, fishing, hunting and gathering are most of the picture.Mainly interesting for the material settings. Flaherty treats…