12                                    David Flaherty

these four films h;is been in continuous circulation over the
years, and the demand for them gives no sign of abating.

Upon Robert Flaherty's death in 195 i at the age of 67, the
poet .\. .M. Sulli\an wrote of him: "Flaherty, the poet whose
medium was light, whose pages were the silver screen, leaves
a great treasure to the permanent library of human experience."

Much of the treasm'c left by Robert Flaherty—the diaries,
reports, maps, and photographs covering his career as an ex¬
plorer, and the manuscripts, scenarios and other writings, as
well as a large collection of photographs relating to his sub¬
sequent career in films—is now in Butler Library at Columbia
University.