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Nanook of the North (1922)

Name: Nanook of the North
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1922
Duration: 1 h 17 min
Cast: Berry Kroeger

192278 minDocumentary✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Nanook of the North (1922) is a 78-minute documentary that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Robert J. Flaherty.

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About Nanook of the North (1922)

Nanook of the North is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, the film follows the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic.

The film follows the lives of an Inuk, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in the Ungava Peninsula of northern Quebec, Canada. Nanook, his wife Nyla and their family are introduced as fearless heroes who endure rigors no other race could survive. The audience sees Nanook, often with his family, hunt a walrus, build an igloo, go about his day, and perform other tasks.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Nanook of the North (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Robert J. Flaherty
Cast includes: Berry Kroeger
Country: United States, France

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1922 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent. Beware 1947 reissue soundtrack (narration/music copyrighted).
Source: Internet Archive

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