Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty, 1922, financed by the fur house Revillon Frères and released by Pathé, shot on Hudson Bay with Inuit families. Allakariallak, billed as Nanook, hunts, builds, and travels with Nyla and the children. Flaherty restaged the walrus hunt and built an igloo with one wall removed so the camera could have light. The Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 1989. The film that taught distributors to sell nonfiction as a feature; the contract with reality is already the subject.