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UNITED STATES · 1927

The Twenty-Four Dollar Island

Robert Flaherty
documentary filmmaking historical narrative indigenous cultures early cinema exploration
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Synopsis

Robert Joseph Flaherty (; 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 film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), set in

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