here i think nanook of the north be the last word in archaic semi doc eskimo movie . how wrong . a an avid sea kayaker i stay up till 330am to watch this hoping to get a glimpse of some hand make kin boat . the movie do not let me down . any student of kayak or umiak construction should have a look see here . ( note to fellow skers represent they appear to be use norton sound kayak with single blade paddle ) . but the film go way beyond this admittedly narrow interest . even though there be a others have note some little back shot fakey bits the movie have so much heart they be just a minor annoyance . it be ( from this very amateur anthropologist viewpoint ) probably the perfect time to make this movie . early thirty represent the talkie be so new that they ( include louie b. mayer . ) actually let the inuit speak in their own tongue . and there be so much that be still and despite the infused melodrama and authentic . they be really whack that polar bear and that whale and those caribou . a fifties version of this film would have be so cheesy with tar and technicolor and etc . to gum it up . the seventy version . don not even . a very good companion piece to this excellent movie be white shadow in the south sea ( 1928 ) geograpically the mirror image to eskimo it also deal with the relentless and profound disruption of western culture or technology on an unsuspecting people .