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The First-Ever Documentary Film Was ‘Moana’

The First-Ever Documentary Film Was ‘Moana’

Two people in traditional attire dance outdoors on a sandy area, surrounded by a group of onlookers with palm trees and huts in the background. The image is in black and white.

Disney's live-action remake of Moana is set to be released in theaters tomorrow, and all is not well: box office sales are projected to be weak and critics are asking why this film, starring Dwayne Johnson, is even being made in the first place. But the first movie called Moana was shot all the way back in 1926 and far from being a live-action remake, it was the very first film to be labeled a documentary.

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