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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).
Flaherty's legacy is the subject of the 2010 British Universities Film & Video Council award-winning and FOCAL International award-nominated documentary A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (so named because, after the staged climactic sequence of Man of Aran, Flaherty said he'd been accused of "trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen"), written by ...
John M. Slattery Jr. (born August 13, 1962) [1] is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–15), for which he was nominated 4 times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
In 1932, Watt joined the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit under John Grierson and began working on documentaries. He was an assistant on Man of Aran (1934).. In 1936 Watt became a director for the London unit of the American newsreel series March of Time, where his films included England's Tithe War (1936).
[4] [2] A service was held for Murnau at the Hollywood Lutheran Church on March 19, 1931. [27] His body was transported to Germany, where he was entombed in Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery, near Berlin, on April 13. [28] [29] Among the attendees of his second funeral were Robert J. Flaherty, Emil Jannings, and Fritz Lang, who delivered the ...
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]
Men of War II is a real-time tactics video game developed by Ukrainian studio Best Way and published by Fulqrum Publishing. As a direct sequel to Men of War , the game features new mechanics and modes and is set on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War II.
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]