Flaherty Francis J (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Flaherty's experience living among the Eskimo of Canada and especially chronicling the lives of one Eskimo family through the year and its seasons. Illustrated with the author's photographs.

Broché. Condition: Bon état. in-8 Description :213 pp. Langue : Anglais Nb de volumes : 1.

Condition: very good. no dustjacket. larger 8vo pp.170, book rebound. book.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. A photographic print depicting a scene from the 1926 film *Moana* directed by husband and wife team Robert J. Flaherty and Francis Hubbard Flaherty. Measuring approximately 12" x 15". Remnants of glue and paper along the margins from being removed from an old mat, toning to the center (where the mat did not cover), scattered light staining, and more remnants of paper and glue on the unprinted verso, still very good as the image remains bold and clear and the flaws could easily be covered with a new mat. Unlike in the film, this is a full-body image of The Conch Blower, who can be seen at around the 1:14:30 mark (in the 2014 digital restoration), the image cropped framing the man from his shoulders up as he blows the conch. The intertitles preceding this scene read, "Everything that you have seen -- the gathering of food, of game, the making of the feast, the Siva -- has all been preparation.preparation for a great event. There is an ordeal through which every Polynesian must pass to win the right to call himself a man. The conch shell sounds the call." Though the 2016 Disney film *Moana* shares a title and geographic setting with the 1926 film, that's where the similarities end. Kenneth W. Leish, in his book *Cinema* explains that, "Refusing to work from a prepared script, Flaherty spent more than three years filming *Moana*, which beautifully depicted the Samoans' day-to-day life," going on to explain the films lukewarm reception being partly due to poor advertising by Paramount who tried to sell it as "'the love story of a South Seas siren,'" which does not properly describe the film. Similar to Robert J. Flaherty's most famous film, *Nanook of the North*, much of what's depicted in *Moana* was staged, which is why it is considered a docufiction film, as opposed to a documentary. While similar photographic prints depicting scenes from *Nanook of the North* appear somewhat common, we have been unable to locate any such prints from *Monana*. …