Moana with Sound

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Moana with Sound Blu-ray



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Kino Lorber has revealed that they are planning to add to their Blu-ray catalog Moana with Sound. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market this June.

Introduction by restorer Bruce Posner: In 1923, the great Robert Flaherty and his wife Frances went to Savai'i island in Polynesia to start making a film that, like Nanook of the North, would both record and meticulously reenact traditional rituals and ways of life of the Samoan people. They brought along their 3-year-old daughter Monica, who returned to Savai'I in 1975 with Ricky Leacock to create a soundtrack for her parents' film, each individual sound carefully recorded and synchronized with the images. Moana with Sound was finished in 1980, but the picture elements were far inferior to the original. Preservationist and curator Bruce Posner and filmmaker Sami van Ingen, a great-grandson of the Flahertys, have gone back to Monica Flaherty's recordings, newly remixed by the great Lee Dichter, and synced them to a beautiful new 2K element, created from the best surviving 35mm materials. The result is absolutely wondrous. (Courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center).

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