Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the InukNanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects' lives.
Question for you to consider.
How much manipulation or staging should a documentary maker use? At what point does the reality become fiction? Would you consider programmes like TOWIE or Made in Chelsea to be documentary, docu soap?
Genre develops and evolves and in these cases this is what we are witnessing.
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