HOME MOVIES: 1930s HONOLULU, HAWAII TRIP

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1937

Format: 16mm

Description: This untitled black-and-white home-style travelog film depicts the family vacation of an upper class family to Hawaii. The film likely dates to 1937 as the cameraman of this film sailed on the S.S. Matsonia from San Francisco to Honolulu. Matsonia was a former World War I troopship that returned to its prior commercial function with the Matson Navigation Company in 1937. This film is part of a larger series of films from the same trip that begins in the Grand Canyon in Arizona and ends in Honolulu. While the filmmaker behind this film remains unknown, it appears his family came to visit

Complete Record: This untitled black-and-white home-style travelog film depicts the family vacation of an upper class family to Hawaii. The film likely dates to 1937 as the cameraman of this film sailed on the S.S. Matsonia from San Francisco to Honolulu. Matsonia was a former World War I troopship that returned to its prior commercial function with the Matson Navigation Company in 1937. This film is part of a larger series of films from the same trip that begins in the Grand Canyon in Arizona and ends in Honolulu. While the filmmaker behind this film remains unknown, it appears his family came to visit