Before Dick Proenekke, there was Nanook of the North

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With winter approaching, I wanted to see how an actual igloo was built. What I stumbled upon was the following video, almost 1 hour and 20 minutes long. The video shows how life was for an Eskimo family in the 1920s. There is only music for background audio (much like the old silent movies), but periodic snippets of text are incorporated into the video to say what is going on. If you can stand the music and 3 or 4 1-minute commercials throughout the duration, I think most folks here will find the video both entertaining and educational. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDVovGjNOc
 
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I've written about Nanook of the North, on this forum, a number of times. Great movie.

This is more than "like" an old silent movie; it is an old silent movie. In fact, it's the first feature length documentary film ever made.

It's been a while since I've seen it, so perhaps I'll take this opportunity to watch it, again. It's chock full of remarkable details about survival and general life in harsh conditions, with very little. It's not entirely accurate, and some parts are staged; nonetheless, there is enough authenticity to make it well worth watching for those interested in outdoors and/or survival.
 
Buy it from Amazon.

Goes from a childhood memory of snow and huts to astonishing documentary and way of life for a family.

Hunting seal and walrus scenes are astonishing.
 
I watched this long ago in 8th grade and loved every minute of it. I'll have to watch it again sometime.
 
I have it in VHS and couldn't beleive how many people could fit inside a kayak and a puppie too , I liked the ice window in the igloo as well.
 
mkhop said:
I have it in VHS and couldn't beleive how many people could fit inside a kayak and a puppie too , I liked the ice window in the igloo as well.
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That scene reminded me of the well-known circus act where 10 or 15 clowns get out of a very small car. Obviously, those kayaks had a bit more space inside of them than the modern commercial version.
 
Hmmm. . .

This movie has been mentioned/discussed a couple of times, then I stumbled on to this article over at Cracked. It's at Top 1.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-crap_p2.html

Ok before before you ask then why I give more credence to a humor site (with shockingly insightful facts actually!) over this long-held docu? It seems eerily similar to a sordid bit of Philippine history -

Back in the 1970's there was a heralded anthropological find of apparently of "Stone Age" peoples (the "Tasaday" tribe) here in my country (Philippines). It received much acclaim among academic circles as well being featured in Nat Geo and the Associated Press. All of this was because of certain Manuel Elizalde fellow. The thing is, this great scientific find was all hooey -

(NOTE: There are actually the Tasaday peoples, but they weren't actually remnants of the "stone age").

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_stone-age_tasaday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasaday_people
 
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Thanks for posting, I love this film! The fishing part is one of my favorite scenes. I guess the link got shut down.
 
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