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Hawaii December 7 1941 Reel-1
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keywords: wwii, hawaii, honolulu, pearl harbor attack, street scenes
Synopsis: Brief scenes of the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor with a travelogue of pre-WWII hawaii, street scenes and landmarks...(read more)
- Date: 1941
- Duration: 00:09:23
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Pearl Harbor Hawaii
Hawaii December 7, 1941 Reel-1
Brief scenes of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Staged scenes of a secretary taking dictation as "Uncle Sam' speaks about the beauty of Hawaii.
A "travelogue" of Honolulu in the early 1940's. The sugar cane and pineapple industry changed Honolulu into a thriving business center. Sugar cane is loaded onto rail cars in the field and transported to the sugar mill. Shows the harvesting of pineapples and the pineapple processing plant with it's giant "pineapple water tank" erected in 1928. Low aerial view of Honolulu. Street scene of Honolulu, electric street cars, and vehicle traffic. Shows the Territorial building, Honolulu Municipal Building, Hawaii State Library, University of Hawaii, King Kamehameha School, Honolulu Academy of Arts. Views of residential streets and homes. Shows houses of worship of many denominations. Royal Hawaiian hotel, Waikiki Beach. Merchant ship entering Honolulu Harbor. Shows names on the buildings of the "big five" companies that developed the sugar cane and pineapple industry in Hawaii, Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer And Company Limited, Theo. H. Davies & Co. and American Factors Inc. Brief image of Japanese field worker in Hawaii.
