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...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...
Hurrah for Them! Other movie folk also thought they detected a familiar ring in The Brave One. Director Fred Zinnemann recalled that the late documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) had told him in 1931 of a similar story he wanted to shoot. Flaherty later sold the idea to Orson Welles, who produced an unfinished version of the story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole...
Died. Robert Joseph Flaherty, 67, No. 1 pioneer of the documentary film Nanook of the North, Louisiana Story); after long illness; in Dummerston...
...visit to his old boyhood haunts in Port Arthur, Ont, Irish emotions welled up in the 66-year-old father of the documentary film, Robert (Nanook of the North) Flaherty: "It's very sad for me; most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they...
Only a producer extremely confident of his ability would dare to make a full-length documentary of Michelangelo's life and work in which not one actor appears. Robert J. Flaherty, who filmed the Arctic classic, "Nanook of the North," is evidently a man with the necessary confidence; the fact that "The Titan" is both an artistic and popular success is proof that he has not deceived himself...