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...food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment agency nearly went on the rocks during last year's I.L.W.U. West Coast strike, gave up this time. "I'm busted," said Locke sadly. Union pickets marched under the palm trees on Ala Moana near the Honolulu docks. Housewives armed with brooms and big placards picketed the pickets; and union wives picketed the picket-picketers...
...Today, at 64, Flaherty reaps the rewards of a pioneer who has never stopped pioneering. Before Nanook, factual films were mostly travelogues-patronizing glimpses of exotic peoples in far-off places. Flaherty concentrated on the struggles of man against his environment. Because of his choice of settings and subjects (Moana, in the South Seas; Man of Aran, on a remote island off the coast of Ireland; Elephant Boy, in India), he was sometimes attacked as a romanticist. The "realists" who belabored him later discovered that much of their own "realism" was merely a fad; Flaherty's pictures have...
Early last December, on his way to his post, he flew to Honolulu, but there his plane was delayed two days. On the morning of Dec. 7, early-rising Lou Claterbos sat in his Moana Hotel room writing his wife a last letter before taking off on the next leg of his trip to Africa...
Buffalo, N. Y. last week saw an exhibition of Flaherty films as well as still pictures taken by his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty. The month-long exhibition was sponsored by Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery, included free showing of Nanook, Moana, Man of Aran. As they had done before, with paying customers, Flaherty's documentaries packed them...
...turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...