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Robert Joseph Flaherty



Flaherty, Robert Joseph (1884–1951), U.S. pioneer documentary filmmaker. He is chiefly famous for Nanook of the North (1922), a study of Eskimo life, and Man of Aran (1934), about life on the Aran Islands of Ireland.

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