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Robert Flaherty, February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951.
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Robert Flaherty, February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951.
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Nanook of the North Robert Flaherty France/USA, 1922
Robert Flaherty, filmmaker and the father of documentary film, was #botd in 1884.
The Aran Islands lie
off Western Ireland.
All three are small…
wastes of rock…
without trees…without
soil…
In winter storms they
are almost smothered
by the sea… which,
because of the peculiar
shelving of the coastline,
piles up into one of the
most gigantic seas in
the world.
In this desparate environ-
ment the Man of Aran,
because his independence
is the most precious
privilege he can win from
life, fights for his existence,
bare though it may be.
It is a fight from
which he will have
no respite until the
end of his indomitable
days or until he meets
his master _
_ the sea.
Robert & Frances Flaherty
Robert Joseph Flaherty (16 February 1884 – 23 July 1951), considered the “father” of documentary films
Nanook by Christine Ott & Torsten Böttcher from Anthology, a free label sampler by Gizeh Records
