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

by Helen Durant

At the core of this study of Robert Flaherty's masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, Louisiana Story, are the production diaries of Helen van Dongen, who was Flaherty's associate producer and editor for the project. Her lively and informative notes, never before published, provide a record illuminating the problem and challenges of shooting and cutting the film and the nature of Flaherty's personality and working methods.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870700812
• ISBN13: 9780870700811
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.