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...Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...
...second feature, "Nanook of the North" has returned. This classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...
This week, Flaherty was riding tandem on fame. Nanook had just completed a successful revival in Manhattan and begun another swing around the country. And a new Flaherty film, Louisiana Story, was to have its U.S. premiere next week...
Kernel of Greatness. Today, at 64, Flaherty reaps the rewards of a pioneer who has never stopped pioneering. Before Nanook, factual films were mostly travelogues-patronizing glimpses of exotic peoples in far-off places. Flaherty concentrated on the struggles of man against his environment. Because of his choice of settings and subjects (Moana, in the South Seas; Man of Aran, on a remote island off the coast of Ireland; Elephant Boy, in India), he was sometimes attacked as a romanticist. The "realists" who belabored him later discovered that much of their own "realism" was merely a fad; Flaherty...
Sheep & Goats. Nanook cost $53,000 and the bill was paid by a fur company. Louisiana Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...