https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/254e75fa-3665-48b0-b6b8-1e40db3d6488 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Consider becoming a channel member: https://youtu.be/ODBW3pVahUE Shot by an unknown American tourist on a trip through California and on to Hawaii, this color 16mm silent home movie dates to 1954. It shows visits to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and finally Hawaii via the Matson Lines steamship SS Lurline. Opening: Pasadena Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. CBS Television City in Los Angeles, CA. Farmers Market in Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles. Cars, store fronts, trolley goes down the street. Buildings in downtown Los Angeles. Trolley car goes up a hill (:08-1:35). Women walk up a hill. Taxi goes down a hill. Now we're in San Francisco with a cable car and the Fishermen's Wharf Grotto. Boats in a marina (1:36-2:30). Matson Lines - to Hawaii, in San Francisco. Views of the SS Lurline. The Pacific Ocean as the ship heads for Hawaii. People relax and sit on the ship. Women dance on the ship. People look off of the side at a catamaran (2:31-4:03). Hawaiian women dance as the ship comes into port. Honolulu's Aloha Tower is visible at the port (4:08). People wait for the ship to dock and reunite with their relatives/friends. People swim and play in the ocean. A woman stands next to a surfboard. Aerial Hawaii city shot. Mountains of Hawaii. Flowers (4:04-5:58). Fish swim in a giant fish tank. Pacific Ocean. Female tourists take a luau dance lesson in hula skirts, while wearing leis (6:39). A woman eats a slice of pineapple. Trucks and tractors at the pineapple grove (5:59-7:21). Pineapples growing. Crashing tide against the rocks. Hotels on the beach. Palm trees. Hotels on Waikiki Beach. People use an outrigger on the water (7:22-9:21). Aerial shot taken from a Hawaiian Airlines Convair CV-340-36 airplane over the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Airlines jet on the tarmac. Closeup of pineapples. Pineapple fields. Farmers at work in the fields. Flowers. Crashing tide against rocks (9:22-11:07). Palm trees, mountains, beautiful grass and homes. Birds of Paradise flowers (11:48) and leaves on trees. Palm trees against the sky. Mountains (11:08-12:52). Pacific Ocean off the coast. Huge waves. A waterfall in the distance. A plane lands. Aerial shots of clouds taken from the airplane. Saint Peter by the Sea Mission - Kahaluu (14:14). Coffee beans (14:24). People walk near colorful flowers (12:53-14:45). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGX4seU2Sk Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:49 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/254e75fa-3665-48b0-b6b8-1e40db3d6488 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.