https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f6a0408d-5fbb-4ddb-b354-50f90edc6442 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. 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 Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi, now Volcanoes National Park (1:25). Steam rises from the volcano (1:47). Close looks at the eroding sides of the crater’s walls (2:11). Igneous rocks and barren, scorched earth (2:26). Tropical trees in a lush, green, forested park (2:46). A panorama from a scenic vista (3:10). Stone masonry near a quiet riverbed lined with trees and ferns. The camera tilts up to reveal a massive peak towering overhead (3:41). A tour bus and 1950s cars parked in a parking lot below the scenic vantage point (4:02). Landscaped views from a hotel resort. A beachfront golf course. Circular architecture and a look around the surrounding areas (4:33). A hula performance featuring dancers wearing grass skirts and leis. A woman strums a guitar. Others play ukulele (5:20). An older dancer wearing a red floral print dress does a solo dance performance (5:30). The hula girls return with Pu’ili bamboo sticks and pom poms (5:50). A different group of dancers take center stage with Tahitian style tassels. Tourists point cameras toward the action (6:03). Surfers paddle out in a view from a passing boat (6:26). Lawn bowling on a trimmed green (6:58). Traditional indigeonous architecture (7:12). A musical performance and dance by a woman in a bright red dress (7:20). 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=kXuHMZp0g-A Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:23:52 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/f6a0408d-5fbb-4ddb-b354-50f90edc6442 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.