Summary

MISC. HAWAII NEWS FOOTAGE

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Title: MISC. HAWAII NEWS FOOTAGE
File Number: GEO-17 Beta SP (rolls 28, 29)
Color: Color
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1970s, 1950s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 01:00:00:00 - 01:00:00:00 Color 1970s, 1950s Miscellaneous Hawaiian raw and B-roll television news footage - weather, natural disasters, fires, accidents, politics, misc. events, military exercises and ceremonies, etc. Some unusual footage on this reel. Some sync-sound. [Five-star]. JMR. 01:00:00:00 - 01:03:33:00 Color 1978 or 1979 The 13th Hawaiian Open golf tournament at Waialae Golf Club, Oahu, Hawaii - excellent, classic golf sequence, featuring sync-sound play-by-play narration by sportscaster, stereotypical to the point of self-parody, whispering and then yelling dramatically when the ball sinks into the hole: VS golfers Hale Irwin, Hubert Green, Gene Littler, Bill Calfie (sp?), and Bill Kratzer (sp?) putting on the green - most of the shots are of excellent putts which either sink into the hole or just miss, also a few shots of drive-shots from the tee sportscaster interviews winner Hubert Green wearing a lei after the tournament. 01:03:33:00 - 01:09:04:00 Color 1970s Oahu, Hawaii - a highway road between Kahala and Honolulu: VS good helicopter traffic news-CAM POV AVs of car traffic (both swiftly moving and traffic jam - LT, tracking shot) on the highway, which runs though city outskirts lush suburbs near coast CU a "No U-turn No Left Turn" traffic sign car driving down a pylon cone-lined HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lane (indicated by diamonds painted on the blacktop) as traffic moving in opposite direction passes by, POV driver . front of car. [Traffic congestion, car commute, urban sprawl]. 01:09:04:00 Color 1970s The Ala Wai Canal, Oahu, Hawaii, at night: man swimming in canal catches a life-line flotation device thrown to him by policeman on shore the man then climbs out of the canal via ladder and is promptly laid in the ground, handcuffed, arrested and led into the backseat of police car. 01:10:21:00 Color 1970s Hawaii: VS an ugly, very small, three-wheeled electric car prototype, parked in nondescript industrial area two men test-drive the little car around the lot. 01:11:47:00 Color 1970s Hawaii, probably a Waikiki hotel: brief shot of a Hawaiian rock band lounge-act called "Society of Seven" on stage, just before they start to play a song. 01:11:57:00 Color 1970s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - good shots: CU record LP spinning on phonograph record player VS famous DJ Disk Jockey Ron Jacobs in the KKUA radio station studio booth, which is adorned with "Home Grown" contest signs and record cover sleeves, wearing headphones, spinning records, adjusting control panel sound-level settings, choosing a cart-tape (or maybe an eight-track tape) young woman picks a "Home Grown" LP record from bin in record store and carries it to the counter to buy it clerk bags it for her (a bit of a flub here - she doesn't pay) and she leaves 7" 45rpm records and eight-track tapes on shelves in BG CU interview with Ron Jacobs about the "Home Grown" records more shots of Jacobs in the studio booth, including sync-sound shot of him on the air, speaking into the microphone about "Home Grown." 01:14:41:00 Color 1970s Hawaii, probably a Waikiki hotel: a Hawaiian rock band lounge-act called "Society of Seven" playing a song on stage VS line of people of audience in the lounge are served Hawaiian buffet food in Styrofoam trays. 01:16:22:00 Color 1970s Bellows Air Force Station, Hawaii - police academy training: VS police cars driving at speed around a traffic cone pylon-marked confidence course on vast tarmac, weaving back and forth between the cones. 01:18:15:00 Color 1970s Hawaii: man wearing tee-shirt and jeans practicing his ice-skating routine on ice rink in empty arena, does a centrifugal spin maneuver. 01:18:54:00 Color 1970s Magic Island near Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii: VS excellent shots of surfer men skillfully surfing on medium-sized waves. 01:19:44:00 Color 1970s Kaneohe Marine Corps military base, Oahu, Hawaii: Chinook helicopter in flight over coastline officers walking away from helicopter on tarmac soldiers repelling down lowered high-lines from hovering helicopter, good shot large helicopter towing howitzer artillery piece beneath it gently sets it down on tarmac Marines fighter plane lands on tarmac and quickly takes off again, officer on field radio watches from roadside Marines fighter plane lands on tarmac and catches arresting-cable hook [aircraft carrier training practice] Color Guard standing in ranks HA the base and coast in BG etc. 01:21:16:00 - 01:22:34:00 Color 1970s Oahu, Hawaii - sailing yacht race regatta off of Diamond Head: bare-chested man on deck of sailboat points to nearby sailboats VS group of sailboat yachts racing across the water off coast of the island, some good shots of the boats listing heavily to one side in the wind Coast Guard Cutter boat at the scene of a small, capsized boat. 01:22:34:00 - 01:24:45:00 Color 1970s Rainbow Rollerland in Honolulu, Hawaii: CU smiling girl as her father laces-up and ties her roller-skates two girls lacing-up their roller-skates sync-sound CU interview with roller-rink employee manager about different age groups which visit the rink VS good shots of 1970s people and children roller-skating around a roller-rink, including people falling and cheesy-cool disco people roller-dancing. 01:24:45:00 - 01:27:04:00 Color 1970s Hawaii: brief shot of Governor George Ariyoshi being sworn in at lectern on podium during inauguration ceremony Governor Ariyoshi, his wife and entourage wearing leis, smiling and walking through applauding clapping crowd VS Ariyoshi (wearing many leis) speaking at press conferences, civic meetings, and making an election day victory speech to crowd of supporters, mostly sync-sound, excerpts. 01:27:04:00 - 01:27:41:00 Color 1970s Hawaii - children's entertainment performance: VS performers wearing Japanese-looking super hero-style costumes pretend-fight battle combat on stage in a martial arts Kung Fu style, very similar to the Power Rangers. Children watch from audience and a few even put up their dupes on the stage. Very funny, neat, and cool! Monsters, animals, robots, cartoon characters, etc. 01:27:41:00 - 01:28:58:00 Color 1970s Eniwetok, Marshall Islands - Coast Guard station base: brief POV AV of the atoll and lagoon VS delivery women deplane from large Coast Guard Clipper airplane carrying paper bags of McDonald's fast-food and hand the bags to waiting group of Coast Guard officers on the tarmac CU one man happily eating hamburger another man holds out a hamburger to an albatross bird who picks at it, weird shot [feeding animals] CU Coast Guard man with thick beard. 01:28:58:00 - 01:31:22:00 Color 1976 Oahu, Hawaii - the 1976 Honolulu Marathon: man singing song in Hawaiian before the start of the race runners run out from behind the starting-line at the sound of gunshot from starter-pistol, crowd of runners runs past CAM, very early in the morning and still dark outside police car drives slowly past CAM at night, blue beacon lights flashing VS runners on the marathon course volunteers holding out cups of water and Gatorade for the passing runners winner man crossing the finish-line CU sync-sound interview with the marathon winner winner woman crossing the finish-line other runners crossing the finish-line VS runners relaxing on the grass after the marathon, one man has his legs massaged. 01:31:22:00 - 01:32:46:00 Color 1970s Schofield Barracks military base in Oahu, Hawaii - crime scene: VS MP SWAT soldiers wearing body armor surround and advance toward barracks building with their rifle guns drawn in effort to apprehend arrest fugitive soldier, PA system bullhorn voice dim in BG saying "come out with your hands up" and the like crime suspect hiding inside the building MP men on roof of building VS MP soldiers stopping cars at gate-house guard-house military base entrance and giving drivers directions, at night. 01:32:46:00 - 01:34:13:00 Color 1970s Hawaii: CU interview with man about a drainage canal into which a child fell and drowned and bureaucratic red tape VS the narrow canal, houses in BG. 01:34:13:00 - 01:37:23:00 Color 1970s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - building demolition site: VS a Caterpillar bulldozer-type construction vehicle ramming into and gradually knocking down the walls of an old prison building a few shots of hard hat-wearing construction workers watching the action. 01:37:23:00 - 01:42:13:00 Color 1970s Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - late 1970s ceremony for newly arrived MIA dead soldier remains from Vietnam War: VS military honor guard and flag-bearers rigidly march in lock-step on tarmac VS other officers soldiers ceremoniously and solemnly unload series of flag-draped MIA coffins from truck and slowly bear them past a few saluting officers, toward and into large transport plane (C-54?) via the open loading bay beneath tail-wing. 01:42:13:00 - 01:45:00:00 Color 1970s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii: VS POV AV footage of the Honolulu skyline, cityscape and waterfront of Waikiki Beach and shoreline and of the terminal buildings of Honolulu International Airport. (Has blue tint, probably shot on indoor-balanced film). 01:45:00:00 - 01:45:42:00 B W 1950s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii: VS firemen battle the flames of an MG convertible car on fire, dangerously burning near the gasoline pumps of a Standard Oil gas station fireman carrying hoses from firetruck to the fire. 01:45:42:00 - 01:46:53:00 B W 1950s Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii: VS firemen and burning building at night, after a TWA plane crash. Poor shots. 01:46:53:00 - 01:48:18:00 B W 1950s Hawaii: VS firemen carrying lengths of fire-hose down road and fighting the flames of a junkyard fire amid cloud of acrid smoke. 01:48:18:00 - 01:49:22:00 B W 1950s Hawaii: dock workers and ship crewmen removing freight from docked boat as smoke from a fire below-decks wafts up. Poor shots. 01:49:22:00 - 01:50:00:00 B W 1950s Hawaii - car fire: men on highway roadside try to prop open the hood of a car on fire as smoke streams out, somewhat funny shots of their futile effort they can't do it, firetruck arrives and firemen use huge crowbars to open it, then spray fire extinguishers. 01:50:00:00 - 01:51:52:00 B W 1950s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii: VS firemen hose-down the ruins of a house after a fire fireman climbs ladder and sprays the soldering roof one fireman is hosed down by another to cool off and wash firemen explore the ruined, burned-down house. 01:51:52:00 - 01:53:41:00 B W 1950s Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii: VS firemen battle a blazing house fire at night. 01:53:41:00 - 01:55:22:00 B W 1950s Koko Head Mountain vicinity: VS POV AV a brush fire on steep mountainside and rising smoke column, a few firemen are visible near the edge. 01:55:22:00 B W 1950s Hawaii: VS firemen fight a glaringly bright fire - burning construction vehicles?, at night.
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