Woundrous difference

WERE THERE ethnographic films before Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the Nini? This book began with this question some ten years ago, when I firs attempted to marry my interests in early cinema and ethnographic film. Strud by the dearth of material on ethnographic filmmaking from the early cinema period, I soon realized that the terrain I was entering, while intellectually stim ulating, was amorpho…