Later Flaherty

After this failure, Flaherty leaves Hollywood for the UK.

There  he makes Man of Aran (1936), reasonably successful...but fails at fiction (Elephant Boy 1937) again.

Back in the US (and bankrupt) the government commissions The Land (1942) but pulls it on release.

Louisiana Story (1948) is his final film is sponsored by Standard Oil.  Often considered his best film.  Themes of modernity, tradition, authenticity, and loss of innocence predominate.

Flaherty notes  marshall