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===Development=== In 1910, Flaherty was hired by [[William Mackenzie (railway entrepreneur)|Sir William Mackenzie]] as an explorer and prospector searching for iron ore and other mineral deposits along the [[Hudson Bay]] for the [[Canadian Northern Railway]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Arctic Profiles: Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951)|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-4-354.pdf}}</ref> Learning about the lands and people there, Flaherty decided on his third expedition in 1913 to bring with him a glass-plate still camera and movie camera as well as a small portable printer and processor. Knowing nothing about film, he took a three-week course on the elementary techniques of filmmaking and film processing with the Eastman Kodak Company in [[Rochester, New York]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Growing Things: the Rural Patience of Robert Flaherty (1994 revision)|url=https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/36201/%5BEWC%5D%20Growing%20Things%20-%20the%20Rural%20Patience%20of%20Robert%20Flaherty%20%282019%2004%2028%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref>
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