 However, Hall felt the picture was a bit long, and various hunting scenes (although often thrilling) were too reminiscent of many such scenes in previous motion pictures.Other reviews were also generally positive, but nearly all critics compared the film to other motion pictures (such as "Igloo" and "Nanook of the North") which had also captured exquisite scenery and scenes of Inupiat people.To many critics of the day, the footage of tribal customs and hunting actually made "Eskimo" a documentary film rather than a drama.