[LEN-E] Nanook vs. South

[Ron Koster]

At 09:50 PM 4/25/2008 +0200, Luc Deneulin wrote:

>THese are all masterpieces.

>Nanook of the North was considered the very first "documentary", the

>word was used for a film for the first time. And yet it was known that

>nobody with a name of Nanook existed--


Actually, speaking of Nanook (and those amazon sales), I was 
surprised to come across this film...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/South-Ernest-Shackleton/dp/B000065C2C/

..."South", from 1919, about Shackleton's trip to Antarctica. I've 
seen modern TV documentaries about that expedition, but never heard 
of this 1919 film.

Wouldn't *that* be a documentary that pre-dates Nanook? Surely the 
definition of a "documentary" isn't simply that the makers referred 
to it as such, is it? And from the description/reviews of this film, 
it does sound as though South would be a more "real" documentary than 
Nanook, if only in that it really does "document" actual events (as 
opposed to staged/acted scenarios).

Ron :?