There is also a beachside suburb of Adelaide named Moana, South Australia Moana in some Pacific Islander languages means the ocean Moana may also refer to the leader of Moana and the Moahunters Moana (1926) is a documentary film directed by Robert J. Flaherty, the creator of Nanook of the North (1922). Trying to get Flaherty to repeat the success of his earlier project, Paramount Pictures sent Flaherty to Samoa to capture the traditional life of the Pacific islanders on film. Flaherty arrived in Samoa in April 1923 and stayed until December 1924, with the film being completed in December 1925. Flaherty took both a regular movie camera and a Prizmacolor camera, hoping to film some footage in that color process, but the Prizmacolor camera malfunctioned. Moana is thought to be the first feature film made with panchromatic black-and-white film, rather than orthochromatic

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