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Nanook of the North / The Wedding of Palo

2 Disc Blu-Ray Deluxe Edition

Nanook The Bear (Actor), Robert Flaherty (Director), Knud Rasmussen (Director) Rated:
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Nanook of the North/The Wedding of Palo (and other Films of Arctic Life) (Flicker Alley) [Blu-ray]

This edition is mastered in high definition at the visually correct speed from the painstaking 35mm restoration of 1972!

Blu-ray-50 (NTSC)

Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Arctic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our discovery of the people and their activities, and ninety years later, Nanook of the North remains as completely engaging as it was in 1922, a huge influence on many ethnographic films that followed. This edition comes with a lovely orchestral score composed, compiled and conducted by Timothy Brock. Selected for the National Film Registry, 1989.

Nanook’s obvious successor, Palo the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Filmed in sound with an Inuit cast from the Angmagssalik district of east Greenland, Palo, like Nanook, documents a vanishing lifestyle and uses Flaherty’s devise of an appealing narrative; in this case, a story of two men who desire the same woman as a wife.

It is mastered in high definition and digitally restored from an original 35mm nitrate print in the collection of George Eastman House.

Special Materials Include:

  • Nanook Revisited (Saumialuk) by Claude Massot,
  • Dwellings of the Far North (1928) - the igloo-building sequence of Nanook as an educational film
  • Arctic Hunt (1913) and extended excerpts from Primitive Love (1927) by Frank E. Kleinschmidt
  • Eskimo Hunters of Northwest Alaska (1949) by Louis de Rochemont
  • Face of the High Arctic (1959)

Nanook of the North/The Wedding of Palo (and other Films of Arctic Life) (Flicker Alley) [Blu-ray]

Nanook of the North/The Wedding of Palo (and other Films of Arctic Life) (Flicker Alley) [Blu-ray]

Nanook of the North/The Wedding of Palo (and other Films of Arctic Life) (Flicker Alley) [Blu-ray]

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Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Arctic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. Nanook of the North remains as completely engaging as it was in 1922, a huge influence on many ethnographic films that followed.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.59 x 6.61 x 5.21 inches; 5.12 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Robert Flaherty, Knud Rasmussen, Claude Massot, Louis deRochemont
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, NTSC, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Silent, HiFi Sound
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 4 hours and 41 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2013
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Nanook The Bear
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Flicker Alley
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AW4ZD8I
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Melodious Thunk
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the Criterion Release.
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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This is the edition to own! Get an excellent film plus extras!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the Criterion Release.
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
This is the edition to own! Get an excellent film plus extras!
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lgs
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2015
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Nanook of the North is a great film itself, in addition to that this came with a lot of extra shorter and longer films. Some good, some meh, but I enjoyed most of them. And I love how much they put into this one box set.
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Yogi
4.0 out of 5 stars A Noticeable But Not Miraculous Improvement
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016
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Although an improvement over the Criterion version, this Flicker Alley Blu-Ray edition seems to be based on the same materials and retains some of the same flaws -- some scenes are too high-contrast, so that faces and details are obliterated. NANOOK itself remains an amazingly fresh masterpiece.
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Alan J. Roukey
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
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Great looking blu-ray. Very thought provoking.
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John Chandler
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014
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What a marvellous film and considering the age and the conditions under which it was filmed this is an extraordinary offering. The transfer is excellent.
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Robin C. Aubrey
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017
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My husband loved this documentary!
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Paul J. Mular
5.0 out of 5 stars Flicker Alley's Nanook outshines the old Criterion DVD!
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2014
Flicker Alley and David Shepard have out done the old Criterion DVD of Nanook of the North. Criterion is generally the level of excellence to match, but Flicker Alley is quickly showing they are also the name for quality.

"NANOOK OF THE NORTH" (1922) (170 min, silent with music)
The biggest improvement I see is cleaner motion. The old Criterion transfer suffered from "Motion Blur" possibly due to slowing down the film to silent film speed. The Criterion DVD also had an interlace stutter that caused objects moving up & down to jitter as they moved. This was quite noticeable just after the titles when we see the rolling sea of ice. The Ice jitters up & down on the old DVD. No window-boxing.

There is also an improvement in the image sharpness, the Criterion looks like 16mm (they claim it is from a 35mm fine grain mastered from a 35mm restoration negative derived from positive nitrate prints). I am very surprised at how poor the Criterion transfer looks.

The Flicker Alley transfer seems to come from the same 1972 restoration negative, but this time it looks like 35mm. There is some film dust in the picture, but not distracting. But now BLUE COLOR TINTS have been added to the last 10 minutes as the title card reads "It is now getting dark".

The original title card must be lost as both transfers re-create the main title. Criterions inserts images from the movir which looks wrong, I thought it was another DVD menu. The Flicker Alley title card tries to look more original with with lettering over black background, but it is too sharp and still looks recreated.

"NANOOK'S" music score is the same exact score as on the Criterion DVD. Composed by Timothy Brock in 1998 and performed by The Olympia Chamber Orchestra.

As you can tell by the title of this release, this is a DOUBLE FEATURE

"THE WEDDING OF PALO" (1934) makes it's home video debut (correct me if I am wrong). (112 min, sound)
The presentation is nice with only one flaw, it is WINDOW-BOXED which is totally unnecessary on Blu-ray. Window-boxing was necessary at times for the old CRT-TVs that badly over-scanned, but HD-TVs set for the "Native" presentation will not overscan. Although a single 35mm film source is claimed to be used, it looks like several different film elements have been used to make that print as the aspect ratio changes slightly on some shots. A thick frame line can be seen at the bottom of some shots and occasionally a thin frame line can be seen at the top. Most of the time there is no visible frame line. The image is moderately sharp but slightly grainy, but for a documentary filmed at this time it looks great! There is a slight flicker through out the film but it is not distracting.

The soundtrack is synchronized with the picture but sounds like the voices were recorded in a studio and synced to the picture. Sound effects are often missing. You see someone fall into the water but you don't hear a splash, you just hear the people laugh. Narration is done by on-screen subtitles and English translations are done by English dialogue cards.

While "Nanook" seems to be documenting everyday life, "Palo" has more of a narrative style but not as bad as a 'Docu-drama'. It still feels authentic.

BONUS MATERIAL. David Shepard & Flicker Alley giveth & taketh away.
Missing: The Criterion DVD had a short 8:13 excerpt from the NET (National Educational Television) TV show "Flaherty and Film" that interviews Robert Flaherty's wife about her husband and the making of Nanook. I will have to ask David why this was omitted, but I suspect it is because her remarks about 'modern' documentaries is degrading. She calls them low budget 16mm short films not intended for the mass audiences in theaters (don't tell Kevin Smith). Now days this is not true and this may be why Davis Shepard omitted this.

BUT there are NEW bonuses (no window-boxing):
disc 1
NANOOK REVISITED - a 1988 64 minute documentary by Claude Mascott interviewing today's Inuit people after they watched the vintage "Nanook" film.
HOUSES OF THE ARTIC (1928) - an excerpt from Nanook that was re-edited as a short subject.
disc 2
CAPTAIN KLEINSCHMIDT'S THE ARTIC HUNT (1913) Arctic Film Company - tinted 35mm, 15 minutes.
PRIMITIVE LOVE (1927) - 32 minutes of excerpts from two films by Frank E. Kleinschmidt: "Winter In the Arctic" and "Polar Bear and Seal". Both appear to be from 35mm.
THE EARTH AND IT'S PEOPLES : ESKIMO HUNTERS OF THE NORTHWEST (1949) - by Louis de Rochemont, United World Films - 20 minutes, 16mm
FACE OF THE HIGH ARTIC (1959) - Dalton Muir, National Film Board of Canada - 13 minutes, appears to be 35mm

There is an extensive 32 page illustrated booklet with essays.
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HAN XIAO
4.0 out of 5 stars I DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS KIND OF DOCUMENTARIES, BUT...
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2014
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I DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS KIND OF DOCUMENTARIES, BUT...NANOOK OF THE NORTH IS JUST SOMETHING YOU CAN'T EASILY PASS... AS THE ANCESTER OF NATURAL DOCUMENTAIRES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU HAVE BOTH THE BLURAY AND THE CRITERION EDITION.
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