Robert Flaherty

Assignment Instructions

His style/form of film-making

How he began the Documentary movement

Docufiction

Talk about his films:
How he would prepare to make a film
He spent many years observing his subject

Nanook of the North (1922)
(Nanook of the North has been criticized for some of the method Flaherty used)

Moana (1926)
(John Grierson coined the term Documentary in reference to Moana (elaborate on this))

What Critics had to say about him .