Another view on history of documentaries
Letter to the Editor

Regarding the article on making documentaries in the Aug. 2 edition of the Sentinel.

Very interesting piece on these two documentary film makers.

A small correction the 1922 silent documentary referred to in the article is actually spelled Nanook of the North. It wasn't made by a

Canadian working for the Hudson's Bay, but by a celebrated U.S. documentary film maker named Robert Flaherty. He went on to make many more famous documentaries, including Man of Aran (1934), White Shadows of the South Seas (1928) and co-directed Tabu.

Mark Henderson

Ottawa