Filming Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story: The Helen Van Dongen Diary

by Eva Orbanz and Richard Barsam

This book details the production of Robert Flaherty's most beautiful and most ambitious film, Louisiana Story. At its core are the production diaries of Helen van Dongen, associate producer and editor for the project and a pioneer among women filmmakers. Her informative notes, which have never before been published, illuminate the problems and challenges of shooting and cutting the film on location in the bayou country of Louisiana.The essays describe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810961946
• ISBN13: 9780810961944
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 5.9"