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Hawaii History Educational Film Sugar Industry & Agriculture 89554 (1960)

1960 · Short film · 21 min

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Hawaii Our Sugar Islands is a color documentary on Hawaii and their production of sugar. It was produced by Vista Products, Inc. for the California and Hawaii Sugar Co. According to the clothing worn in the film, it was probably produced in the 1960’s. Opens with a color focus symbol with Vista Productions Inc., San Francisco on it (0:07-0:16). Beautiful ocean scenes, beach scenes, flowers, and Hawaiian scenery (0:18-1:29). An Islander discusses three Hawaiian ancient gods: 1. goddess of the volcano, Pele, the creator of the Hawaiian Islands; 2. god of rain, Lono; 3. god of sunlight and fresh water, Kane (1:30-2:08). Views of a sugar cane field (2:09-2:49). Hawaii was created by volcanic action below the sea, the work of Pele (2:50-3:28); the island was nothing but lava rock, so wind, rain, waves, made soil (3:29-3:55); lichen, moss and fern appeared, seeds were planted by birds, they sprouted and grew (3:56-4:28). Beauty was created by Kane (4:29-4:47). Origin of people is unknown (4:48-5:19). Map showing the ocean currents used by immigrants to reach the Many Islands or Polynesian Islands (5:20-5:39). Wild pigs (5:54-5:56), chickens (5:57-5:58), dogs (5:59-6:00), potatoes, bread fruit, and sugar cane (6:00-6:16). Planting sugarcane (6:17-6:29). Drawings of James Cook and his landing in Hawaii in 1778. Maps were developed showing the 7 islands of the Hawaii Islands, Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau (7:06-7:51). Kauai was first sugar plantation…

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Running time
21 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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