Robert Flaherty

Robert Flaherty was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, in 1884, the son of an iron ore prospector; he spent his childhood in the mining camps of northern Ontario and became a prospector himself. In 1916, the cigarette he was smoking set fire to the negative of his first film. He then filmed in Polynesia, Ireland, India and Louisiana, often with the local inhabitants. He died in Vermont in 1951, aged sixty-seven.

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• CinemaNanook of the NorthRobert Flaherty · 1922Cinema