Nanook of the North (1922)

Highly Recommended Inuit Movie: The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) amzn.to/2EfdCBd
"Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 American silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, with elements of docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.[1]
In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The film has been incorrectly considered the first feature-length documentary.[2] Some have criticized Flaherty for staging several sequences,[3] but the film is generally viewed as standing "alone in its stark regard for the courage and ingenuity of its heroes."[4][5]"
-excerpt from the movie's Wikipedia page.
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[@12.8k]

Filmed on 1922 Me: watching on this date August 26, 2022

[@elisa48092]

Wow this is a 100 years old movie D:

[@throatpunch4789]

Real life documentary

[@tomgrantham9992]

That was one of the most amazing documentaries that I've ever seen. These people are truly incredible, amazing, tough, intelligent, beautiful. Wow!!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience and having the opportunity and foresight to make this informative narrative before it was lost forever.

[@mariapereira5500]

Mind blowing to see how many people and dog got into the kayak. Very ingenious brave culture..

[@lostpelican1883]

That scene is famous for being a clever editing trick. Not that many people can fit into a qajaq. The effect really is interesting though.

[@Sarah.Riedel]

The clown car of the north lol

[@robertlambert7736]

Great movie. I watchrd it as a kid in school in the 80"s.

[@caseykelso1]

Your old like me 🤣🤣🤣🍸

[@cattymajiv]

@@caseykelso1 I'm even older though! I don't even dare to say how old! LOL!

[@danielt.3152]

Basically everyday you are one mistake away from dying. Of all native peoples in the Americas I think they are the toughest

[@grahampovey8073]

Marvelous, unique footage. Thank you!

[@user-qo5tv1jc4g]

극한의 환경에서 터를잡고 살아가는 이분들께 경의를 표합니다.

[@caseykelso1]

I agree. 🍸

[@cattymajiv]

I'm sure it's still extremely challenging, though in a completely different way. Life up there is very hard in a great many ways.

[@user-dc5li9wm8m]

Отличный фильм. Уважение таким людям.

[@Sokol10]

27:50 - Imagine when this people live only with stone blades. A fantastic work of cinematographic record.

[@carolaybob]

Maravilla

[@Scrap5000]

How did all those people fit inside that boat?! 😆 Amazing!

[@osuclassof88]

Tough condition tough people

[@matthewmann8969]

Those coats, sweaters, jackets, slickers, hoodies, and parkas are really honorary

[@sonnythecuckoobird8645]

99 years ago .

[@florin604]

This is incredible

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[@agnesk1871]

Strong Character culture 👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻Classical Video. Wonderful ! 👏🏻 I love 💗 them &🐕 so much !

[@debboutland7408]

How fascinating!

[@tetouanwadlaw2008]

merci

[@mrno_name9518]

Arrivederci

[@katiedaly8467]

Unbelievsble..and i thoight i was hsving a bad day!! No words

[@petersymons9170]

Incredible footage. WHAT A TESTOMONY TO THESE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE. OVERWHELMING RESPECT FOR THERE SURVIVAL SKILLS. ONE OFF BEST DOCO I'VE EVER WITTNESSED.

[@toddhoward7432]

It just works

[@Sup3rD4ve]

What an amazing feat of filmmaking! If you'd like to know more about how Eskimos live and hunt and fight and love, I recommend the 2001 film "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner". It's fictional, but based on the legend of an Inuit cultural hero, and it was the first movie to be written, filmed, and directed entirely in Inuktitut, the Eskimos' language.

[@breeknutson9149]

The filming crew was also 90% Inuit!

[@cattymajiv]

I only speak English, but I found that film to be really wonderful. I loved it! But then I love everything about Inuit people. There are not a lot of Inuit in southern Canada, and just like everyone else, they tend to live and work in groups while down south. But when you do meet them, they are wonderful people. So kind, generous, and cheerful, just as described here. I read and watch everything I can get my hands on regarding the Inuit, and this is1 of the best, along with Atanarjuat, the 1 mentioned above.

[@MinhHoang-vs8we]

Trời năm 1922 mà đã có những thước phim như thế này

[@christophernicolas1362]

This 100 years old

[@TheVelgaxxx]

Didn't even care to build a wall of snow bricks as a kind of shelter for the poor dogs! Heartless nation.

[@Sarah.Riedel]

For people who literally live off animal fat, that castor oil was probably like melted ice cream to that kid

[@robhill3378]

God bless nanook and family for decades.

[@Killianwsh]

Hardly! If you payed attn. at the beginning of the film you'd know that just a couple years after this film was made Nanook starved to death hunting deer in the interior.

[@clinton8421]

​@@Killianwsh He actually died of disease, likely tuberculosis. The inclusion of the fact that he died of starvation was probably to sell the idea that Nanook, or Allakariallak, was untouched by western civilisation.

[@cattymajiv]

@@clinton8421 Since you know zero of the actual facts, you should keep your accusations to yourself. I hope someone videos you and puts it up on YT, so we can all critcise your motives.

[@tomspeed2000]

Can’t understand how he managed to hold that monster and how much that hunting rope was strong ..

[@bobbymacwatt7417]

It blows my mind that Nanook, managed to hunt in just one season, foxes seals walruses and 7 polar bears with nothing more foremidible than his harpoon

[@beetroot7486]

That rope was made from seal skin. Extremely strong when done right.

[@mediacapable]

There was a movie, (and I'm pretty sure it was this one) that I watched as a child, (I'm 67 now), but it brought me to tears at the end because the grandmother went out into the snow to die. Her teeth were not good enough to chew anymore and therefore she was a burden to the family. Does anyone remember that scene? Was it cut from this movie or was it in another?

[@TBONE82]

I wonder if those dogs are still frozen out there??🤔

[@albertorkenbjorken]

all i could think at the end was.. these poor dogs...

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

ok a one persona Kayak ... and out pop 2 kids 3 adults and a husky puppy .. WTF ... I thought I was watch the wringling brothers circus as a load of clowns piled out of a little peddle car LOL ... . wish we had a modern retelling ... so we can keep the old ways preserved for history and the young who have forgotten the old ways

[@diegoh8164]

11:04 seems like "torsos" in back scene

[@cooperhowz2]

You're starving your dogs. That's why they're so mean. Poor dogs.

[@cattymajiv]

You know nothing at all about it. Even if you raise dogs yourself, in your comfy American environment. I have never seen another video with SO many idiots making stupid comments! It's unbelievable how much Americans try to boost their own egos by posing as experts in KZbin comments!

[@davidjefferson9327]

And do not survive

[@2036livy]

Exactly. And why not let the dogs inside during that miserable storms. Plenty of room and would have just added heat. They also kept them short tied so the poor dogs could not move out of their excruciating pain to seek shelter on backside of igloo. I'm shocked at the mistreatment considering the dogs were their lifelines

[@auretioustaak6579]

They are wolves you idiot. They are mean because that's the nature of actual pack animals that not utilised by humans are naturally alpha predators of their biome. The dogs were fed their share of the kill, it was shown in depth. There are other videos on this channel that explaain how the wolves are evolved to not only exist comfortably outside in the blizzards but thrive. The majority of information on the eskimos is that they constantly battled with starvation. Heck, it tells you at the start that Nanook died of starvation hunting for deer because of the lack of seals that year. Everyone that commented above or liked the comments are demonstrating not only willful ignorance, but also that they have never once bothered to survive in any way outside of the coddled, everything in abundance at your fingertips, way of a developed nation. Further emphasised by not understanding that the eskimo dogs aren't your normal dogs, there's a bloody alpha pack master referred to as such in this film. Yet cruelty is used by these keyboard warriors. Fail at life harder you're gonna be challenged to. --- Amazing look into a way of life essentially non existant for close on a century now, and a gloriously happy family and people from 100 years ago.

[@tatotaboh4864]

1:01:05 what a weak friend's of who doesn't pull a seal

[@brucefranklin1317]

His furs were superior to others. He was a superior hunter too..

[@bonnielucas3244]

Unbelievable

[@brucefranklin1317]

I told m people this dude was like a superman. What a kind man too..i seen him kill a polar bear by hisself with 2 long heavy spears... he rolled up on that big bear fired first one glanced off his head then he just plunged another in his chest he was dead in 7 seconds. Ole nanook was a cool dude family man..

[@cattymajiv]

Not very funny. If you were alive at all in the early 20s you'd be 100 now.

[@guschagasreal]

why the hashtag tagging Alaska?????

[@cattymajiv]

As usual, it's an American channel trying to co-opt a Canadian film.

[@LadySelune]

@@cattymajivThis isn’t a Canadian film. It’s an American film about an Inuit family in the Canadian Arctic. You need to get over yourself.

[@JM-un6mk]

I can tell the dogs come from separate owners

[@cattymajiv]

Yeah. Right. That's ridiculous. You can't compare those dogs to modern ones, raised in a completely different environment by completely different people. Why do so many people lie their asses off on YT?!

[@myrnawashington9057]

That's a really good woman to chew her husbands boots😂😂😂😂i would be like chew them your own self😂😂😂 yeah I already know about the comments that are coming😂😂😂

[@cattymajiv]

All modern women would say the same Myrna, even Inuit women! But back then, I guess they understood that the men endured terrible hardships for their families while hunting. So as a way of honoring that, they did some hard stuff too. After all, chewing boots is nothing compared to the pain and suffering of hunting seals and fish. Even though all of their cloths were expertly made to keep water out, the boots wouldn't get stiff if they hadn't been soaked. The weather conditions were commonly below -50F. Depending on where they lived, it could even get much colder. Some of them lived at the far northern Canadian coast. Their hands and feet would be frozen very fast when wet, but who knows what distance the igloo is from the hunting grounds. Twenty minutes would feel like a century with wet hands and feet. So I imagine husbands that treated wives well did get boots chewed, while those who treated wives badly did not.

[@mohamethmolina]

ta locazo ah

[@gulyaaydemirova4187]

,Суровая жизнь у них. Собак жалко. Бедных кормили бы нормально. Ведь собаки их кормят.

[@turkcografyacom]

It is completely ordinary, except that it was made in 1922.

[@terencewilliammckenna6121]

Happy 100th anniversary

[@girimukti4586]

Is Kayak from eskimo? Are them asian ethnic?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

asian is not an ethic group it is a wide an diverse denomination. They clearly have nothing in common with Han Chinese or Japanese or Koreans even Mongols. They're really their own group.

[@marthakrumboltz2710]

@@goognamgoognw6637 take a close look @ them and say they have nothing in common w/ Asiatic persons.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Kayak is created by this culture. Baidarka is another fascinating vessel. You can build one yourself, not that difficult. Just don't overdo the whole thing, as a school teacher or such..

[@TheVelgaxxx]

Страшная жизнь!! Адская!

[@Gabor.P.]

I think these people have the toughest life of all primitive people around the world and shows how delicate their life is and how they have to depend on each other and nature and the dogs. What about if they need a dentist or some other reason one gets sick or injured or if the man gets hurt and can't provide no more. What will happen to the woman and the kids? That life style is also a gamble. A constant struggle for food and against the elements. Never a day off or being lazy or not working or become a couch potato. I mean they are not even stone age people but less. They don't even cook their food. Always meat never any green. They know the fire but they manage not to use it cause the fire also need fuel (wood or twigs and grass) All they have is fat of the animals. very unhealthy diet and life style. I wouldn't last there 6 months. May be not even 3. They don't need metal tools only 1 and that is a knife. But as a saw they use the valorous ivory and just as they eat they bite and cut off with the knife and when they cut the meat and processing it. No other needs nor tools needed for their survival. Only 1 danger the polar bear even the arctic wolves are staying away and they have a pack of dogs there too. So all this not even a 100 years ago ! Amazing ! Also the whole family sleeps together naked so when do they find the time to ........ reproduce or make another little Eskimo ? How do they find mate and make new family etc? I mean this was a life style but what about their socializing with each others etc? What is entertainment for them and when do they find the time for it ? So many question yet is all unimportant cause you need to go and hunt and what ever is available at that season and have to harvest it. Compare to those primitive tribes around the world jungle these people have it a lot harder cause in the tropic you not going to die from freezing to death at least. TY and WOW I never knew cause they are far from me and not many people try to documenting them cause of the extremes ! Lot easier to document in the deepest darkest jungle then in a west snow and ice where there is days of walk and no ending and no beginning. Where you start and where those people live if they are on the move always. Never no permanent place always on the go summer camp or winter camp and some other temporary camps. Just a mazing ! Thanks again !

[@robhill3378]

i agree with you, these people are my heroes, God bless nanook and many families after.

[@lilab5376]

jesus christ. Inuit are not "not even stone age people but less". you know they watch TV right?

[@prixe12]

This film was staged, Inuit people are not subhuman, primitives who hunt seals all day, they had entered the modern era long before this movie was produced.

[@Sup3rD4ve]

How do they make more little Eskimos? Just like everyone else does, only without privacy. 😉

[@OmmerSyssel]

Try study something called books! Stored in libraries.. They live one of the healthiest lifestyle.. When eating intestines from reindeer and seal they get access to vitamins and minerals. Not that complicated

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Eskimos and Inuit and other north pole tribes are the finest people on planet earth.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Were..! Study the extreme abuse culture haunting Greenland, the wealthiest people on earth, still unwilling to take care of the weakest among them!

[@daveshen0880]

*Inuit. There is no letter S in word inuit.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@daveshen0880 thanks for the correction.

[@Ace-ke7fq]

wonder y they didn't make shelter for the big dogs too..that was sad..

[@cattymajiv]

The big dogs have fur that is adapted to the weather. As far as I know, but I'm not an expert, they almost never died or even got frost bite. But they probably did suffer at times. Sometimes, in times of terrible starvation, they got killed for food too. So yeah, a tough life.

[@antoniescargo1529]

Too much noise. Too much text. 🖕

[@chocoman1842]

Are they mongols? From mongolia? Or from korea?

[@mrderp1292]

They are Eskimos (Inuit) from Canada.

[@rchristie5401]

ilmfao!!!

[@OmmerSyssel]

Now a days everything is made in China... 👀 He was a first mover!

[@TheVelgaxxx]

These eskimo were born like animals, lived like animals and died like animals, not like true humans with souls.

[@paulabessard1270]

I wonder who got the money 4 this documentary?

[@marthakrumboltz2710]

What in hells bathroom would they do with money anyway?

[@OmmerSyssel]

Hopefully the man, who spent at least two years making this documentary?

[@clinton8421]

@@marthakrumboltz2710 Well, Nanook probably needs money for bullets since he and other Inuit hunters used firearms by 1922.

[@MrYougotcaught]

i hate this video. This video only shows how dumb the Inuit is to a record player, and other modern stuff. But let show the Inuit giving a white person a seal, or walrus, or salmon and see what he/she can do with it....

[@justka4444]

Prawda

[@Evanderj]

Are you saying white people can’t filet a salmon or butcher an animal? Nanook wasn’t dumb. The phonograph just really amused him. Many people around the globe had not seen one in 1922.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Your statement tells more about your ignorance, than anything else... Eskimos wasn't used to being filmed. No one forced them to behave in certain ways. Watch movies from that time, all looks the same. Welcome in reality

[@MrYougotcaught]

@@OmmerSyssel Racism was the norm during that time, and outright rampant especially against the natives of Canada

[@clinton8421]

Yeah, that was staged. Nanook, or Allakariallak if you want to use his real name, knew what a phonograph was and understood the process of recording film. He and the other Inuit subjects even had creative influence over the film. By 1922, the Inuit of northern Canada and Alaska had been in contact with white settlers for decades and knew of western technology. Allakariallak mostly used guns when hunting seals and was told to use a harpoon by Flaherty during the production of this film.

[@Killianwsh]

Most shots in this film are ridiculously staged.

[@rickwarren8161]

You are too young then to appreciate the value and quality of this 100 year old film. We older folks are not this way, as this was before most country folks had running water, indoor bathrooms, definitely no heat other than coal and wood which we chopped ourselves, no tv, a radio for listening a couple a week, a land phone with outrageous prices if we called outside of our small allowed area (even calling 5 miles away could be $4.00 a minute), dirt roads that flooded when it rained and would also flood any vehicle trying to drive across with flooding water...I can go on.

[@Killianwsh]

@@rickwarren8161 Respectfully Sir, you are incorrect. The house I grew up in had no heat other than a 55gal. drum wood stove, which my father, older brother, or I (when I was big enough to swing a axe) cut & split ALL the wood for. It was not up graded to an electric heating system until after my youngest sister left for college. We had a land line with a rotatory dial wall phone. I do indeed appreciate the value and quality of this film for what it does show of their way of life. However, none of that changes, in anyway, the validity of my statement that many of the shots were staged.

[@marthakrumboltz2710]

When you say ridiculously staged, I feel some believe you mean outrageous or stupidly contrived. Perhaps they are somewhat contrived, but how else could you get dogs and a whole family (never seen a motion camera) to go thru the motions of a day in the life? I doubt if wind machines were used.

[@Killianwsh]

@@marthakrumboltz2710 True! Lol

[@OmmerSyssel]

How would you create such a masterpiece? Are you aware of how complex things worked hundred years ago, for a single enthusiast far away from any kind of civilisation? Ridiculous statement, you're not watching a simple Hollywood product!

[@TheVelgaxxx]

These is the destiny of people who live without God, severely mistreating their dogs, not wise enough how to properly feed them, just using them hardcore. Horrible, terrible Godless animal-like life.

[@TheVelgaxxx]

hardcore animal abuse, this made this film hard to watch for me.