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A series of five stories
3: Comock the Eskimo
Before winning international acclaim as a film-maker (Nanook of the North, Moana. Man of Aran, Louisiana Story), Robert Flaherty made several expeditions as an explorer among the Eskimos in the Far North of Canada.
Here were a people with less resources than any people on earth yet they were the happiest people I have ever known.
(Shortened version of a true story broadcast in 1950, the year before he died)
Producer HARRY CATLIN

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Robert Flaherty
Producer:
Harry Catlin
Source: Radio Times

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