Home Movie: 097295 (silent)

Description: A family that may have been engaged in missionary work visits the Waimānalo Sugar Plantation and documents nature and plantation landscapes in Hawai'i. Includes scenes of church interiors and exteriors, with a Sunday school releasing local children carrying Bibles who wave to camera.

Can marked:
"#1/ Waimanalo Sugar Cane Field & Refinery Church S. School -Flour Picking -Children at play -Pali & Nuvany Rd. -King's Resting Place,"

History of the Waimonālo Sugar Plantation may be found here: alohahawaiionipaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-26-Waim.-Sugar-Plantation.pdf (accessed July 3, 2026).

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Subjects: 1940s, Families, Religion, Nature, Plants, World War II

Tags: close-up of flowers and vines; Hawai'ian flowers; hands holding flowers; mothers and children; motherhood; children jumping from ledge into mother's arms; families; corsages; fathers holding hands with children; fatherhood; nature; waterfalls; coconut palms; mother and children sitting on stone wall; mountain vistas; cars driving on mountain roads; Standard Oil Products facilities; Hibiscus flowers; toy car carts; children playing; palm trees; farms; windy days; palm lined streets; Rabbit Island sign; rocky coasts; Blow Hole sign; sailors; ocean blow hole spraying water; driving POVs; driving perspectives; rock formations; Bougainvillea; trumpet vines; children filing out of school house; integrated group of children; indigenous Hawai'ian people; posing for camera; siblings; girl pretending to smoke; church congregation; I am the Resurrection and the Life banner; city streets; Hawaiian Industrial Exposition banner; Royal Mausoleum sign; children saluting to camera; lily pads on ponds; children posing with flowers; Waimanalo Restaurant sign; sailors holding hands with children; filmed from moving vehicle; main streets; 1940s cars; 1940s clothing;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1940s

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Geographical Location: Hawai'i; USA; O'ahu, Hawai'i

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 210