Nanook in Depth
Analysis of Nanook in Depth Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North created a succession of full-feature length enthnographies, it being the first to do so. ... Instead of an authentic Inuit such as Nanook himself, a narrator, (an outsider), was used instead, to tell the story of life in the Arctic and the Inuit people. ... The sponsors of the film were fur traders, the Inuit people in 1922 were not as primitive as the movie claims, and suddenly Nanook was perceived as a film about Eskimos. Watching this film, one is very aware of the use of fur and catching wild fur bearing animals was seen as an everyday task for Nanook and his tribe.