Title: Moana
Year: 1926
Director: Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast: Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita, Tama, Pe’a, Leupenga, Emma Hudson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Why in Database: A silent film (however, many years after premiere, the makers’ daughter went on a journey and recorded the appropriate sounds, and in 1980 a new version was released, the same image but with added sound). There is a long scene in this movie, showing a catching of a sea turtle, taking him to shore, and drilling a hole in the rim of the shell to string a string through it…
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