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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

A boatload of wild Irishmen / Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín presents ; directed by Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín ; written by Brian Winston ; producer, Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.

Publisher, Date:

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Icarus Films, 2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Examines Robert Flaherty's career as "the father of the modern documentary film" and the dispute about his staged scenes. Includes excerpts from his films as well as telling interviews with the people whose parents and grandparents Flaherty put onto the cinema screens of the world: Inuit, Samoans and the 'wild men' of Aran.

Subjects:

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.

Nanook of the North (Motion picture)

Man of Aran (Motion picture)

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States.

Documentary films -- Production and direction.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951.

Ó Curraidhín, Mac Dara, producer, director.

Ó Fátharta, Macdara narrator.

Winston, Brian, screenwriter.

Flaherty, Martha.

Stoney, George C.

Crosson, Seán.

Ruby, Jay.

Icarus Films.

Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín.

Notes:

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Originally produced in 2010.

Cinematography, Alan Wilson [and others] ; editors, Chris Hainstock and Mikey Flaherty ; music, Steve McGrath.

Narrator, Mac Dara Ó Fatharta ; interviews and contributions from Robert Flaherty, Richard Leacock (cameraman on "Louisiana Story", 1948), Martha Flaherty (Flaherty's Inuit granddaughter), George Stoney (documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University), Seán Crosson (film scholar at the Huston School of Film), Jay Ruby (anthropologist and film scholar at Temple University), Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (musician and folklorist from Árainn).

DVD-R; NTSC, widescreen; stereo.

Includes public performance rights.

English, Irish Gaelic and Inuit with English subtitles; closed-captioned.

ISBN:

9786316817969 : DVD

6316817967 : DVD

Publisher Number:

11806159

Other Number:

761338930

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

659904

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD BIO Flaherty