This 1960s color home movie footage depicts a tourist vacation to Hawaii, showing sandy beaches, blue Pacific coastlines, a visit to a pineapple farm, and plenty of panoramas of mountains, greenery, and other natural splendor (TRT: 11:35).
Aerial photography from a passenger plane. A passenger plane engine in partial view. Overexposed shots of mountain peaks on the horizon (0:08). Underexposed footage of a clouded sky (0:37). A car exits a mountainside tunnel. A scenic panorama reveals a steaming tropical landscape of mountains dotted with electrical poles. Mountain peaks disappear into the clouds (0:48). A beige 1970s automobile on a sandy beach, with blue ocean in the background. A panorama reveals a scenic coastal vista and white waves lapping at the rocky shoreline. An arched rock (1:48). An agricultural operation processes harvested crops, probably sugar cane or pineapples. Footage of a rural area taken from a fast-moving vehicle (2:22). The Pacific Ocean. Clean, uncrowded beaches. Rock divers (2:52). More footage from the driver’s side of a vehicle (3:30). A white woman in glasses and a print dress stands in a field holding up a freshly harvested pineapple (3:44). A propeller-driven “Aloha” airliner taxis on a runway, with luggage in the foreground (3:56). The driver’s POV continues, with rock formations taking center stage (4:02). A view from a scenic overlook shows agricultural areas (4:40). A flood zone during a heavy rain. The car continues its journey (5:02). The rainy footage gives way to verdant greenery. Canoes are seen in the distance, with a shade umbrella in the foreground. A circular restaurant (5:23). An industrial plant and a large tourist resort hotel nestled in a scenic panorama (6:15). Elderly tourists take in a view from a mountain overlook, probably Waimea Canyon, helping to convey the scale of the mountainous grandeur surrounding them (8:43). A blowhole erupts with water, probably Halona Blow Hole (9:01). Burning and clearing a field using a piece of tracked agricultural machinery (9:37). A passenger’s POV from an airplane landing on a runway with Hawaiian landscapes in the distance (10:00). Aerial photography shows the tourist’s departure, and an overexposed view of a volcanic crater (10:31).
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