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[Home Movies of Maui: HC&S Puʻunēnē Mill; Plantation workers; machinery / circa 1950 - 1960]
Date1950-1960
Mediumacetate, plastic
ClassificationsMoving Images
Credit LineGift in Memory of Nanshin Okamoto
Object number2023.35.1
DescriptionColor home movie footage spliced together on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Footage filmed by Reverend Nanshin Okamoto in Hawaii circa 1950 to 1960. Footage shows pineapple and sugarcane plantations, workers, and machinery. Footage is about 30 minutes, 49 seconds.
:01 – Man driving yellow farm tractor backwards on dirt path.
:10 – Man and additional person checking yellow tractor.
:26 – Yellow tractor pushes dirt into a pile.
:35 – Man spraying, what appears to be, a tarp with pineapple plants.
1:12 – Two men ride on tractor, four people digging in rows of soil being prepared for planting.
3:40 – Pineapple field.
3:51– Pineapple plantation workers in field, checking and cutting individual pineapples.
4:00 – Blue truck.
4:27 – Plantation worker bent over pineapples.
4:35 – Various plantation farm machinery being shown.
4:55 – Plantation workers putting pineapples on conveyer belt machinery.
7:44 – Man holds two pineapples in his hands.
9:27 – Landscape pan of plantation fields.
13:11 – Sugar plantation worker in sugar field, cutting sugar cane.
13:25 – Man holding sugar cane stalks.
13:58 – Sugar cane farming equipment.
14:07 – Appears to be sugar cane stalks soaking in water, equipment taking it out of one industrial container and putting into another.
18:37 – Pineapple field with farm equipment and workers.
19:02 – Water irrigation system for fields.
19:29 – 9 men in or near empty water irrigation system.
20:03 – Large farming vehicle machinery pushing into sugarcane.
22:15 – Large water sprinklers on sugarcane field.
22:30 – Puʻunēnē Sugar Mill with three red and white smokestacks.
24:05 – Large industrial truck hauling tons of sugar cane.
25:17 – Sugarcane field controlled burning.
27:09 – White-gray building, appears to be a mill.
27:22 – Man on tractor pushes sand from beach to mill.
:01 – Man driving yellow farm tractor backwards on dirt path.
:10 – Man and additional person checking yellow tractor.
:26 – Yellow tractor pushes dirt into a pile.
:35 – Man spraying, what appears to be, a tarp with pineapple plants.
1:12 – Two men ride on tractor, four people digging in rows of soil being prepared for planting.
3:40 – Pineapple field.
3:51– Pineapple plantation workers in field, checking and cutting individual pineapples.
4:00 – Blue truck.
4:27 – Plantation worker bent over pineapples.
4:35 – Various plantation farm machinery being shown.
4:55 – Plantation workers putting pineapples on conveyer belt machinery.
7:44 – Man holds two pineapples in his hands.
9:27 – Landscape pan of plantation fields.
13:11 – Sugar plantation worker in sugar field, cutting sugar cane.
13:25 – Man holding sugar cane stalks.
13:58 – Sugar cane farming equipment.
14:07 – Appears to be sugar cane stalks soaking in water, equipment taking it out of one industrial container and putting into another.
18:37 – Pineapple field with farm equipment and workers.
19:02 – Water irrigation system for fields.
19:29 – 9 men in or near empty water irrigation system.
20:03 – Large farming vehicle machinery pushing into sugarcane.
22:15 – Large water sprinklers on sugarcane field.
22:30 – Puʻunēnē Sugar Mill with three red and white smokestacks.
24:05 – Large industrial truck hauling tons of sugar cane.
25:17 – Sugarcane field controlled burning.
27:09 – White-gray building, appears to be a mill.
27:22 – Man on tractor pushes sand from beach to mill.
Fukuzaki, Ben
ca. 1943-1955
Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
Honda, William Minoru
1935-1936
