In Louisiana Story, Robert Flaherty chose the loud nature opulent as a meeting place between two cultures: an English-speaking industrial culture and a French-speaking rural culture. This film, which is commissioned and financed by the Standard Oil Oil company, was originally intended to show the difficulties and dangers of oil extraction for its teams, while at the same time presenting them in a project aimed at the general public. The problem for Flaherty was that such manoeuvres were underground and escaped from the camera’s lens. After having travelled thousands of kilometres in the United States in search of inspiration, his choice focused on the country of the Acadians of Louisian, where it was marked by the image of a waterborne platform on one of the many bayans in that region. This place allowed him to mix and compare in the same image the modernity of the derricks and a wild nature, a population strange by its traditions and language with a more typical American working population. Louisiana Story remains a strange and ambiguous film. Men appear to be secondary, dominated by the gigantism of oil equipment and the size of nature. It seems that at the time of the Flaherty shooting was fascinated by fauna and flora, to the detriment of the scenario which was the encounter between two cultures through the discoveries and friendship of a small cashew boy.