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Date produced: 1926

Filmmaker(s):

Robert Flaherty

Languages:

English

Format:

35mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Collected in the Unseen Cinema Project.

Description:

"Flaherty's New York film is a negotiation of modern urban culture (the city) by a filmmaker whose interests had primarily been of the exotic, the folk, the ancient cultures" (Tepperman 32).

Resources:

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941.
Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960. University of California Press, 2014.

Locations:

  • New York City, New York (Filming)

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Viewing Notes:

Now available on DVD in the longest known version of the film made from excellent 35mm film elements discovered at Gosfilmofond of Russia and Nederlands Filmmuseum with introductory titles derived directly from Flaherty’s own notes for Unseen Cinema.