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Man of Aran (1934
1934 in film

Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
) is a documentary film
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 by Robert J. Flaherty
Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
, a docufiction
Docufiction

Docufiction is a neologism which refers to a cinematographic work mixing fiction and documentary.Concerning a film genre in expansion, the new term appeared at the beginning of the 21st century....
 on life on the Aran Islands
Aran Islands

The Aran Islands are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. The largest island is Inishmore the middle and second-largest is Inishmaan , and the smallest and most eastern is Inisheer ....
 off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for huge basking sharks to win their liver oil for lamps. Some situations are fabricated, such as one scene in which the shark fishermen are almost lost at sea in a sudden gale.






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Man of Aran (1934
1934 in film

Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
) is a documentary film
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 by Robert J. Flaherty
Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
, a docufiction
Docufiction

Docufiction is a neologism which refers to a cinematographic work mixing fiction and documentary.Concerning a film genre in expansion, the new term appeared at the beginning of the 21st century....
 on life on the Aran Islands
Aran Islands

The Aran Islands are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. The largest island is Inishmore the middle and second-largest is Inishmaan , and the smallest and most eastern is Inisheer ....
 off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for huge basking sharks to win their liver oil for lamps. Some situations are fabricated, such as one scene in which the shark fishermen are almost lost at sea in a sudden gale. Additionally, the family members shown are not actually related, having been chosen from among the islanders for their photogenic qualities.

A documentary (1977) about the making of the documentary, which is included in the special features of the DVD, relates that the Aran Islanders had not hunted sharks in this way for over fifty years at the time the film was made. Man of Aran shows us Flaherty's re-creation of culture on the edges of modern society, even though much of the primitive life depicted had been left behind by the 1930s. It is impressive, however, for its drama, for its spectacular cinematography of landscape and seascape, and for its concise editing.

The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Cripple of Inishmaan

The Cripple of Inishmaan is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran.Set on the small Aran Islands community of Inishmaan off the Western Coast of Ireland, circa 1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inishmore to make...
 is a play that has to do with the filming of the movie.

Cast

  • Colman 'Tiger' King — A Man of Aran
  • Maggie Dirrane — His Wife
  • Michael Dirrane — Their Son
  • Pat Mullin — Shark Hunter
  • Patch 'Red Beard' Ruadh — Shark Hunter
  • Patcheen Faherty — Shark Hunter
  • Tommy O'Rourke — Shark Hunter
  • 'Big Patcheen' Conneely of the West — Canoeman
  • Stephen Dirrane — Canoeman
  • Pat McDonough — Canoeman




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