1922: Nanook of the North
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Robert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North came out in the same year as the BBC was founded. Continuing our series explores cultural events from 1922, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough talks to film historian Roswitha Skare and journalist Luke Dormehl about why this study of life in the Arctic has proved to be both controversial and influential.
Roswitha Skare is the author of Nanook of the North from 1922 to Today: The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife.
Luke Dormehl has written A Journey Through Documentary Film.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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| 0:39.3 | Hello, I'm Eleanor Rosamund Baraklough, and as part of a series exploring other significant |
| 0:43.9 | cultural events that took place in the year that the BBC was founded, this episode of the |
| 0:49.1 | Arts and Ideas podcast looks at the first feature-length documentary film, the Nook of the North, which was released |
| 0:56.2 | in June 1922. |
| 1:02.0 | In June 1922, audiences enduring the sweltering summer heat of New York City found themselves |
| 1:10.0 | transported to the chilly northern |
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