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R.J. Flaherty taking a movie, Port Harrison, QC, 1920-21 Robert Joseph Flaherty, FRGS (/ ˈ f l æ. ər t i, ˈ f l ɑː-/; [3] February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).
The youngest of the children Robert and Frances Flaherty brought with them to Samoa was their then-three-year-old daughter Monica. In 1975, Monica Flaherty returned to Savai'i to create a soundtrack for her parents' hitherto-silent film, including recording ambient sounds of village life, dubbed Samoan dialogue and traditional singing.
Louisiana Story is a 1948 American black-and-white drama film directed and produced by Robert J. Flaherty. Its script was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty. Although it has historically been represented as a documentary film, the events and characters depicted are fictional.
Pages in category "Films directed by Robert Flaherty" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Frances Hubbard Flaherty (December 5, 1883 – June 22, 1972) was a film writer and director known for Louisiana Story [1], The Land, [2] and Moana (1926). [3] In 1955, Flaherty founded The Flaherty Seminar, a film study center for filmmakers, curators, and students.
In 1931, Robert Flaherty set up a studio and laboratory facilities on Inishmore, the largest of the three Aran Islands. [1] Flaherty had promised Balcon he could shoot the entire film for £10,000. [2] Over the next two years, he shot over 200,000 feet of film for a 74-minute documentary, oftentimes filming the same event time after time. [3]
Murnau and Flaherty wrote a story called Turia and started their own production company, Flaherty-Murnau Productions. Turia was based on a legend Flaherty had heard while working on W. S. Van Dyke's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) and contained many elements which would later evolve into Tabu: A Story of the South Seas. [2]
The Pottery Maker is one of two short films produced by private sponsors and directed by filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty after the completion of his second feature Moana in 1925. [ 2 ] Produced by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts , and sponsored by actress and Flaherty admirer Maude Adams , the short film was shot in the basement of the ...