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The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB526304
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Pierre Moretti
Directors:  Co Hoedeman
Producing Agencies:  Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Ottawa), Canada. Ministère des affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien (Ottawa), National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject:  Canadian Literature, Fiction, First Nations Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Literature
Language:  English
Grade Level:  Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1975
Running Time:  7:33


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A hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave in this legend of a river and of how fog came to the land. The story is enacted by Inuit using katadjak or throatsinging. The audience is locked in an alien world of sights and sounds where human activity seems propulsed by primeval forces.


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