The live action version of Moana will be released this weekend. It's a remake of the 2016 animated movie. But the first Moana that Disney produced was 100 years ago, in 1926! The full-length silent film was directed by directed by Robert J. Flaherty, who did Nanook of the North in 1922. Flaherty spent a year in Samoa recording footage. He had envisioned an exciting tale of a sea monster, but instead found happy people living peacefully with no d…
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