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Natural Life
With an invention so splendid as the film camera these early film makers sought out to use this tool to educate viewers. ... And in films you don’t get the traditional reading, writing and arithmetic-- you learn of lifestyles, political views and influences, and the natural beauties (and not so beauties) of the world.
Robert Flaherty was probably the more romantic in his approach of filming the natural. His idea was not to expose the natural that is, but more the natural that was. ... Along his journeys he would come across many American natives struggling to maintain their natural life as it was being taken over by the “white man”. Flaherty became obsessed in finding and exposing life as it was in America before the European invasion. ... This was in reference to his film, Nanook of the North where Flaherty filmed Eskimos building igloos and hunting as they would before ideas of trade and industry were introduced-- living their natural, traditional lives. ... Vertov felt that this cheated the public of knowledge of natural life. ... After its success, Grierson became a creative organizer and mentor to new film makers often stressing the importance of capturing natural life without the influence of the government and other sponsor’s views.
Approximate Word count = 892
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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