Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (79 min.)) : sound, black and white |
Contents |
Logos, introductory titles -- Barren lands -- The family kayak -- The "big igloo" -- Fishing on the thin edge of starvation -- The tiger of the north -- Two miles a day -- Building the igloo -- Home schooling -- "Morning" -- Ogjuk, the big seal -- Shelter from the big storm -- Restoration credits |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Based on the book: My Eskimo friends / by Robert Flaherty |
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Release of the 1922 American/French silent motion picture by Revillon Frères |
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Digital transfer, remastered at the visually correct speed ; orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock |
Credits |
Producer, Robert J. Flaherty ; film restoration and transfer supervision, David Shepard/Film Preservation Associates ; video editor, Bret Hampton ; telecine colorist, Russell Bishop |
Event |
Recorded in Inukjuak, Quebec |
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Silent film with English intertitles |
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Description based on videodisc version record |
Subject |
Eskimos -- Québec (Province)
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Inuit -- Québec (Province)
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Québec (Province)
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Hunting -- Canada, Northern
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Eskimos.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Hunting.
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Inuit.
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Social conditions.
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Québec (Province) -- Social conditions
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Subject |
Northern Canada.
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Québec.
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Genre/Form |
Performance
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Documentary films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Silent films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Documentary films.
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Silent films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Films ethnographiques.
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Documentaires.
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Films muets.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.
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Flaherty, Frances Hubbard.
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Brock, Timothy.
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Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.
My Eskimo friends
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Revillon Frères Trading Company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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