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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).
In a 1961 letter to The New York Times, the photographer-filmmaker surveyed earlier uses of the technique of moving still images by himself and others: “Curt Oertel made his ‘Michaelangelo,’ with important storytelling use of still material, in 1940 (released as Robert Flaherty’s ‘The Titan’ around 1949). Belgium’s Henri Starc ...
Along with fellow film maker Robert Drew, he developed the method of separating the wire from the microphones and the cameras. Leacock explains the problem with Louisiana Story and pre-synchronized sound filmmakers: Like all documentary filmmakers, he [Flaherty] had an identity problem in that period. They couldn't deal with sync sound.
Born in Cleveland, Steiner studied chemistry at Dartmouth, but in 1921 entered the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography. White helped Steiner in finding a job at the Manhattan Photogravure Company, and Steiner worked on making photogravure plates of scenes from Robert Flaherty's 1922 Nanook of the North.
Speilvogel's early experience covers work with famous documentarian Robert Flaherty and the original Cinerama group. Along with Richard Leacock, he was cinematographer on Flaherty's Louisiana Story, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing Motion Picture Story in 1949 and has been selected for the National Film Registry.
Photography: Nathaniel Fein of the New York Herald-Tribune for his photo, ... (G. Schirmer) released in 1948 by Robert J. Flaherty Productions. References
In a 1961 letter to The New York Times, photographer and filmmaker Louis Clyde Stoumen surveyed earlier uses of the technique by himself and others: Curt Oertel made his Michaelangelo , with important storytelling use of still material, in 1940 (released as Robert Flaherty's The Titan around 1949).
John Grierson CBE (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. [1]