Subject: Re: baidarka Nanook of the North
From: Phil Ellis (pcoellis@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 20:31:18 EDT
Nanook is available in both videotape and DVD formats (apparently from two
different vendors) and copies appear pretty often on Ebay. They seem to go
for around $25. A week or two ago a copy of the film itself was listed, but
was withdrawn before the auction was over.
Anybody else going to the Delmarva Paddle Retreat (Oct. 6-8)?
Regards,
Phil
>From: "Peter A. Chopelas" <pac@premier1.net>
>Reply-To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
>To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
>Subject: baidarka Nanook of the North
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:00:34 -0700
>
>Did anyone catch the broad cast of Nanook of the North on PBS Sunday night?
> I taped it and have already viewed it three times, the kayak parts even
>more times. It is a fascinating piece of film making. It does not appear
>that they used any kind of spray skirts on their kayaks, and notice the
>long high aspect ratio paddles! They must be fairly large kayaks, I was
>surpassed to see Nanook carry his whole family of five, including his dog,
>inside a single hatch kayak (yup, young son on the deck infront of him, his
>wife, infant child and teenage daughter and dog below deck, with him in the
>cockpit!)
>
>There was also a brief scene where it shows them stretching the skin over
>the frame, notice how elastic the skin is! There must not be a lot of
>stiffness added by the skin. The frame construction is very different than
>what is shown in either Zimmarly's and Wolfgang's books, I want to study it
>some more...(I wonder if I can get some decent prints off the tape, the
>original film was rather grainy). I would like to try and scale the
>dimensions of the kayak off the images as well, though they look fairly
>large, more or less Greenland style.
>
>Peter
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