Who made a documentary about Inuit life?

19 10, robert flaherty, as a railway surveyor, went to East Hudson Bay for exploration. The area of this place is almost the size of the island of England, and there are about 300 Inuit living there.

19 15, Flahadi began to film Inuit life. I accidentally burned the film of the first edition of the film and decided to shoot it again on 1920. This time, he aimed the camera at an Inuit named Nanuk and his family. At that time, Flahadi didn't think that he was actually creating a precedent for modern documentaries.

Detailed introduction:

When Flahadi began to shoot the world's first documentary, he adopted the concept of passive camera and extended it.

Scenes and plots were designed by him as if they were shot under a passive lens, and a macro perspective was constructed to describe the Inuit lifestyle. The film quickly swept the United States and even the world, but it was also controversial.

Flahadi's influence on this film is not only to make shooting easier, but also to protect the rapidly disappearing Inuit culture and prevent them from being eroded after contact with westerners.

But Inuit people at that time were already familiar with western culture. Most people exchange local fur for modern western clothes and harpoons for guns. Therefore, when shooting the scene of Nanook hunting walrus, Flahadi asked Nanook to use the traditional harpoon instead of his usual standard rifle.