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Moana (With Sound)

After the triumphant success of his true-life Arctic adventure Nanook of the North (1922), director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife Frances and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. It was in a 1926 review of Moana that the word documentary was first used in a cinematic context (John Grierson commented that the film had documentary value). While Moana may not have been a documentary in the purest sense of the