Being that "Nanook" is considered the first feature length documentary, it definitely has it's place in this course. I found it interesting that this film was actually partially staged...meaning the director, Robert Flaherty set up shots on purpose instead of everything flying by the seat of its pants, so to speak. Kind of crazy, but its seems like a precursor to what we know as reality tv these days, doesn't it?
Flav you got nothing on Nanook!
Regardless of shots being manufactured for film, it was still a very groundbreaking medium for Flaherty to pursue.
The man with a movie camera was a dialogue-less adventure with a man just walking around the Soviet Union with a camera filming random things. The one aspect I found fascinating in this film was the shot at the Nazis. One of the targets at the end of the movie was a person wearing a nazi cross hat. Kind of intriguing considering both country's future in the history books together.
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