| LC control no. | n 50003066 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951 |
| Variant(s) | Flaherty, Bob, 1884-1951 Flaherty, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1884-1951 Flaėrti, Robert, 1884-1951 Флаэрти, Роберт, 1884-1951 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Canada |
| Birth date | 1884-02-16 |
| Death date | 1951-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Iron Mountain (Mich.) |
| Place of death | Dummerston (Vt.) |
| Field of activity | Motion pictures--Production and direction Documentary films--Production and direction |
| Affiliation | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) |
| Profession or occupation | Documentary filmmakers Motion picture producers Motion picture directors Motion picture producers and directors Explorers |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His My Eskimo friends, 1924. Rotha, P. Robert J. Flaherty, a biography, 1983: CIP t.p. (Robert J. Flaherty) pub. info. with CIP (Bob Flaherty) Info. from 678 field, 2014-02-10 (died July 23, 1951) Robert Flaėrti, 1980: title page (Роберт Флаэрти = Robert Flaėrti) page 64 (Robert J. Flaherty [in roman]) page 5 (film director) page 151 (born February 16, 1884) Wikipedia, 03-31-2017: (Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951); often called the father of documentary film, he was the creator of such classic landmark films as Nanook of the North (1922), Moana (1926), Man of Aran (1934) and Louisiana Story (1948); he became a filmmaker in attempts to document his travels as an explorer and prospector in the then uncharted Canadian Arctic; one of the earliest known independent filmmakers who worked outside the commercial studio system, Flaherty made films sharing themes such as the beauty and grandeur of the natural world, and the dehumanizing effects of technology and modernity) Britannica Academic online, viewed November 10, 2021 (Robert Flaherty; Robert Joseph Flaherty; born, February 16, 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan; died, July 23, 1951 in Dummerston, Vermont; family moved to Canada when Flaherty was a boy; American explorer and filmmaker) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed November 10, 2021 (Flaherty was inducted into the Royal Geographic Society of England for his (re)discovery of the main island of the Belcher group in Hudson Bay in 1914) |
| Associated language | eng |
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