“SCHLEY RIDE TO HAWAII“ 1952 TRAVELOGUE HANA-MAUI RESORT VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK REEL 2 XD52384
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This color travelogue was produced by Norman E. Schley in 1952. It is an extended version of another travelogue he produced. This version is silent, but it may have had a soundtrack at one time. Schley also showed many of his films live to an audience, and narrated the films while they were projected.
Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 (0:06). Local children play on dirt road - one kid wheels toddler in wheelbarrow (1:15). Kids scale palm tree (1:54). Pans lush landscape, blue water (2:04). Hana-Maui Resort: montage manicured grounds, private villas (2:16). View of perhaps West Maui Mountains (2:38). Perhaps the Schleys enjoying pool of private villa (3:07). Female employees gather hibiscus & oleander (3:15). Resort dining room with ocean views (3:42). Guests line up for breakfast buffet decorated with Birds of Paradise, banana leaves, pineapples (4:19). Close-up intricately plated buffet salads (4:38). Family sits on patio furniture, women from group and hotel employees model Polynesian-inspired vacation wear (5:12). Mrs. Schley, kids at resort ranch (6:15). Blue Jeep Willys M38 on rural road (6:51). Farmers make repairs to barbed wire fence (7:00). Cattle ranchers usher cattle through field, dude ranch, cattle sorted through mechanized wooden fence, hand-operated by rancher (7:12). The Wananalua Congregational Church; Easter services, young kids show off Easter baskets filled with chiclets, life savers (8:53). Post-service buffet, women scoop traditional foods onto paper plates inside tent (9:23). Soiled baseballs in box, kid throws them at pyramid of bottles (9:52). Sign for Hana Store - oldest store in the island (10:11). Small bank with private mailboxes (10:26). Hana School: students sit and weave baskets and hats from straw, palm husk (10:35). Florist shop, owner poses for camera (11:36). Perhaps Ohe’o Gulch (Seven Sacred Pools) Haleakala National Park (12:10). Perhaps Waimoku Falls (12:23). Middle aged craftswoman sits on straw mat, weaves fedora (12:45). Honokalani Black Sand Beach (13:38). Taro field - agricultural worker plants taro bulbs (14:04). Women sit in circle, scrub harvested taro, pound it on wood slat (14:43). Mrs. Schley opens invitation for poolside cocktail party (15:51). Hotel employees teach party attendees traditional hula dance (16:12). Hula ʻAuana performance, dancers, women play Ipu Heke (17:42). Kids play on Hana Beach (19:34). Young local spear fisherman displays DIY goggles, perhaps crafted from palm tree or coconut shell (19:52). The fisherman show off tropical fish they caught (20:16). Fishermen rush into surf with longboards, ride waves (20:54). Rice paddies, jagged cliffs seen from plane (21:44). Woman in bright orange bikini lounges on rock with Anthurium in hair, dips foot in water on W. H. Hill Residence (22:04). Ti plant (22:29). Yellow allamanda (22:39). Anthurium bouquets (22:46). Bamboo orchid (22:58). White lady flower (23:02). Crepe ginger (23:13). Greenhouse filled with red Anthurium (23:20). Gardener collects pink orchids (23:34). Crates of harvested pink orchids for lei (23:40). (24:05). Schley’s sons walk through field of dried lava rocks (24:09). Steam rises from under grass (24:33). Keanakako’i Crater (24:46). Molten lava, bright orange (24:57). Schley’s sons explore tropical jungle Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, fern fronds (25:45). Kona Inn Kailua-Kona (26:40). Guests swim in saltwater pool (27:02). Nature along desolate roads leading out of Kailua, dried lava rocks, cacti (27:45). Lettuce field (28:49). Honokaa People’s Theatre, signs for multinational/lingual films from Japan, Philippines (28:56). Aloha Airlines DC-3 takes off for Honolulu, clouds and mountains seen from plane (29:24). Palm trees frame view Diamond Head (29:42). Dole Pineapple Plantation - pineapple plants (30:10). Dole Water Tower (30:33). Camera pans commercial boats in harbor (30:42). Traffic in downtown Honolulu (30:44). Lei stands (30:54). Street vendor paints portraits (31:30). Moana Hotel Waikiki in background, hotel guests walk Waikiki Beach (32:42). Catamaran, canoes off Waikiki Beach (32:44). LED light sign for Waikiki Tavern (33:26). Performers dance hula, twirl batons to live band at night club (33:21). Schley behind camera (34:47). Tourists board perhaps United Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Schley and wife stare out window inside plane (35:04).
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