15 min.
Robert Flaherty and Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Legendary Documentary Fllmmakers Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast
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Legendary documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty (1884 - 1951) and his wife Frances Hubbard Flaherty (1883 - 1972) lived in Dummerston, Vermont just north of Brattleboro and in later years the Flaherty Film Study Center was located there. The episode talks about the Flaherty's early life and marriage, and delves into Robert's first work documenting his explorations of the Belcher Islands in the Hudson Bay region of Canada. The cinematic result was “Nanook of the North”, released in 1922. The film achieved widespread critical acclaim, introducing documentary filmmaking to the world as an art form that could capture people, nature and convey our common humanity. While not strictly documentary in today's sense of the genre, Frances said in her 1960 book The Odyssey of a Filmmaker: Robert Flaherty's Story,' quotes from which are included in the podcast, that their work was the essential Flaherty method, capturing "the thing itself for its own sake." Frances was an active partner in filmmaking and won an Academy Award in 1948 for best original story for the couples' 'Louisiana Story.' This episode provides synopsis of several of the Flaherty's films including 'Nanook of the North', 'Moana' (which the narrator refers to as 'Moana of the South Seas') and 'Man of Aran.' The work of Flaherty daughter Monica Flaherty Frasseto and her work adding sound to Moana thereby breathing new life into it, is discussed. After Roberts death, Frances founded The Flaherty Seminar, a film study center for filmmakers, curators, and students that continues today.
Legendary documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty (1884 - 1951) and his wife Frances Hubbard Flaherty (1883 - 1972) lived in Dummerston, Vermont just north of Brattleboro and in later years the Flaherty Film Study Center was located there. The episode talks about the Flaherty's early life and marriage, and delves into Robert's first work documenting his explorations of the Belcher Islands in the Hudson Bay region of Canada. The cinematic result was “Nanook of the North”, released in 1922. The film achieved widespread critical acclaim, introducing documentary filmmaking to the world as an art form that could capture people, nature and convey our common humanity. While not strictly documentary in today's sense of the genre, Frances said in her 1960 book The Odyssey of a Filmmaker: Robert Flaherty's Story,' quotes from which are included in the podcast, that their work was the essential Flaherty method, capturing "the thing itself for its own sake." Frances was an active partner in filmmaking and won an Academy Award in 1948 for best original story for the couples' 'Louisiana Story.' This episode provides synopsis of several of the Flaherty's films including 'Nanook of the North', 'Moana' (which the narrator refers to as 'Moana of the South Seas') and 'Man of Aran.' The work of Flaherty daughter Monica Flaherty Frasseto and her work adding sound to Moana thereby breathing new life into it, is discussed. After Roberts death, Frances founded The Flaherty Seminar, a film study center for filmmakers, curators, and students that continues today.
15 min.