A Note on the Video

Written by Alain Silver
Original photos from "Nanook of the North"
Web Production and Design, OneWorld Magazine.

The currently available video of Nanook of the North was reconstructed by film historian David Shepard with an evocative score by Stanley Silverman. Although remarkable by 1976 standards, current digital technology could make even more dramatic improvements in the image quality and bring the viewer closer to experiencing the pictorial quality of Flaherty's original. Other videos of interest are Nanook Revisited a critical revision of the film revealing many of Flaherty's dramatic liberties and Nanook or Kabloonak a 1994 French-Canadian dramatization of Flaherty making his motion picture.