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Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This color reel of home movie footage documents a 1950s tourist vacation to Hawaii, offering glimpses of the big island around the time of its statehood,revealing a colorful, relatively undeveloped land of beauty as well as a taste of the familiar tourist attractions that would later come to dominate the region (TRT: 12:46). Leader and punched holes. A group of yachts on a sunlit, sparkling panorama (0:05). A waterfront resort hotel. Grass huts, a weather vane, docks. Medium shot of a man in a printed shirt and sunglasses riding on a boat (0:13). A view from a motorized boat, cruising around the island’s coast. Waves crash over rocky shorelines (0:34). Distant mountains rise into the clouds (0:49). A white pillar is seen in the distance (1:12). Halemaʻumaʻu, a pit crater within the much larger Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of Kīla
