Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're going to be talking about Robert J. Flaherty, the director of Danuk of the Norse.

Thanks, everybody.

That was our episode of the podcast.

Ah, feels good to be back here in first year film studies. That's right. It's exciting to, you know, everybody. That was our episode of the podcast. Ah, it feels good to be back here in first-year film studies.

That's right.

It's exciting. You know, these issues about documentary ethics have been going on for almost a century now, and we're going to settle them.

Film 101. First movie we're going to watch after we saw The Great Train Robbery is going to be the Nook of the North, the one that everybody will

skip.

Now, here is a filmmaker that if you've seen his films, it was probably at gunpoint.

At gunpoint in university.

Yep.

The man who is credited with inventing the documentary film as we know it.

Even though that technically he just made the first financially

successful feature length documentary film. And also documentary question mark. Yeah. So Robert J.

Flaherty, work for places like National Geographic. Love to do stuff in foreign places.

Like have sex with people in foreign places. Like, have sex with people in foreign places.

Have common law wives with people in foreign places.

Listen, if you're cross state lines, it's not illegal, right?

Yeah, what happens in Northern Quebec stays in Northern Quebec?

So he ended up exploring the Inuit people in Northern Quebec, as we'll just

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