SHORTT'S THEATRE.
It does not seem possible that any film can live up to its advance notes, but "Na'nook of the North," the Pathe feature shown yesterday at Shortt's Theatre, and continuino; until next-Thursday, surpasses the praise it has received.
"Nanook of the Nortt" is a true story of a life that is stark and dramatic; a. life that is;tragic to civilisation, but happy and peaceful to the Eskimo, that wonderful .race that lives in the frozen vastness-af'the top of the world. While tin's film, produced on the" East Coast of Hudson Bay Toy Robert J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S., is a story of the life of an Eskimo family, in some subtle way it unfolds .a story full of love and fidelity; danger, thrills, and suspense; humour and pathos, and great pictorial beauty. Mr.-Flaherty ie an engineer and an explorer ; "Nanook of the' North" proves him also an artist and a lover of human nature. He makes you love the Eskimo as he does, after years of living with them. The photography is free from the glare and-- blur .. that characterise snow scenes, and a remarkable point is the fact that the film was developed'in the Arctic by Mr. Flaherty, in spite of" the low temperature and.lack of a !fully equipped laboratory. Yet'- it puts to ehame other films in its perfection. Some of the Eskimos in tho picture learned to assist - .in. -the developing -.and printing. The supporting films arV' of an" equally high order. , '
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 9
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