Nanook

The Canadian Forces suspended the training operation, called Nanook, and will assist the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, the lead investigator on the crash, Hennessy said.

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“Nanook” comes from the Inuit mythology meaning “master of the bears.”

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The production was “Nanook of the North,” made by a novice filmmaker named Robert Flaherty, and it is often regarded as the first documentary feature ever produced.

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In the course of the film, Flaherty follows Nanook as he uses spears to hunt his prey.

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As with “Nanook of the North,” audiences watching “Moana” were unaware that Flaherty was staging scenes for the camera.

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There was no Nanook – the Inuit subject was actually named Allakariallak.

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Hundreds of military personnel were already in the region to take part in the Canadian military's annual northern training exercise, Operation Nanook.

Plane crashes in Canadian Arctic, 12 killed 2011

For Flaherty, “Nanook of the North” was a personal vindication – he had lived in the Arctic for nearly a decade and twice attempted to create a film about the Inuit people.

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Today focuses on Inuit culture, with screenings of 1920s "documentary" Nanook Of The North which was notoriously staged and Zacharias Kunuk's thrilling fable Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner, plus Kunuk's latest doc, Qapirangajuq, an Inuit response to climate change.

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Nanook supports his family as a walrus hunter, and he is adept at fishing, building igloos and surviving in the harsh extreme weather of the frozen north.

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