Nanook of the North

Japanese: 極北の怪異 - きょくほくのかいい(英語表記)Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North
An American film produced in 1922. Directed by Robert Flaherty. A groundbreaking masterpiece that was the first in the history of cinema to be labeled a "documentary film." The person who coined the term was John Grierson, the British-Canadian father and theorist of documentary, who defined documentary as "film that creatively processes real events." In fact, this was the first film to prove Grierson's theory that stories born on location are truer than those written in a script, and that natural people give truer performances than actors.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
1922年製作のアメリカ映画。ロバート・フラハティ監督。映画史上初めて〈ドキュメンタリーフィルム(記録映画)〉と名付けられた画期的な名作。命名者は,〈ドキュメンタリーとは現実のできごとを創造的に処理する映画である〉と定義した,イギリス,カナダのドキュメンタリーの育ての親であり理論家であるジョン・グリアソンで,実際,ロケーションから生まれたストーリーのほうがシナリオによるストーリーよりも真実であり,自然の人間のほうが俳優よりも真実の演技を見せるというグリアソンの理論を証明した最初の作品であった。

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