Word: revillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flaherty got the idea of doing a documentary film. A cross between a feature picture and an old-fashioned travelogue, it was to have a central story (man's struggle against Arctic cold and hunger), a cast of characters (Nanook and his family). He persuaded John Revillon and Thierry Mallet, of the famed fur-trading Revillon Freres, to back an expedition to Cape Dufferin on the northeast coast of Hudson...
Every big distributor in pictures turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...