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Moana with sound
Title
Moana with sound / Alpha-Omega Digital, British Film Institute National Archives, Degeto Film, Filmmakers Showcase, Harbor Picture Company, Robert and Frances Flaherty Study Center, Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Sami Van Ingen, and Monica Flaherty presents a sound version of Robert J. Flaherty's classic of the South Seas ; Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky present ; by Robert J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S., producer of "Nanook of the North" and Frances Hubbard Flaherty ; a Paramount picture ; Famous Players-Lasky Corporation ; produced by Robert J. and Frances Hubbard Flaherty.
Edition
Blu-ray, sound version.
Publication
New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Monica Flaherty presents a sound version of Robert J. Flaherty's classic of the South Seas Moana."
2015 version restored by Bruce Posner and Sami van Ingen (great-grandson of the directors).
Film originally released in 1926. Sound version originally released in 1980. 2K digital restoration originally released in 2015.
Special features: "Moana with sound: a short history": a documentary (39 min.); "About the restoration" (12 min.); Flaherty and film: Moana (1960): an interview with France Flaherty by Robert Gardner (17 min.); Flaherty family home movies (5 min.); "Twenty-four-dollar Island": an experimental "city symphony" by Robert Flaherty (1925, 10 min.); filmed commentaries by historians Enrico Camparesi and Bruce Posner; promo trailer (2015).
Edited and titled by Julian Johnson.
In Samoan with English intertitles.
Summary
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. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after the original release of the film, the Flahertys' daughter, Monica, ventured back to Savai'i with documentarian Richard Leacock to record a new audio track of authentic sounds and voices in the regional dialect.
Variant and related titles
Container title: Robert J. Flaherty and Frances Hubbard Flaherty's Moana with sound
Originally titled: Moana : a romance of the golden age
Twenty-four-dollar Island (Motion picture : 1925)
Moana (Motion picture : 1926)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Samoan
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2017
Credits
Edited and titled by Julian Johnson.
Performers
With: Ta'avale Uni, Fa'agase Súa-Filo, Pe'a Taulealea, Tu'ungaita, Lupenga Tau'ili'ili.
System details note
Blu-ray: 1920 x 1080p (1.33:1) presentation; region A; 2.0 mono.
Contents
Moana With Sound / directed by Robert J. Flaherty (1926/1980, 98 min.)
Moana with sound: a short history (39 min.)
About the restoration (12 min.)
Flaherty and film: Moana (1960, 17 min.)
Flaherty Family Home Movies (5 min.)
Twenty-Four-Dollar Island / directed by Robert J. Flaherty (1925, 10 min.).
Videorecording number
K1808 Kono Lorber
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary-style films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
Feature films - United States.
Documentary films.
Documentary-style films.
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927), production company.
Alpha-Omega digital GmbH, presenter.
British Film Institute. National Archive, presenter.
Degeto Films (Firm), presenter.
Filmmakers Showcase (Firm), presenter.
Harbor Picture Company, presenter.
School of Theology at Claremont. Robert and Frances Flaherty Study Center, presenter.
Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, presenter.
Kino Classics (Firm), publisher.
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