Shot by an unknown tourist, this late 1950s or early 1960s silent home movie shows some of the sights on the Big Island in Hawaii. This includes mostly natural sights like different volcanoes and the aftermath that their eruptions have left. The cameraperson was also particularly interested in botany and flowers with extensive footage of native species and slides showing some of their scientific names. There is also fascinating footage in this reel of cattle on what might be the Parker Ranch. Here Paniolo cowboys are seen herding cattle into the ocean and then hoisting them onto a boat for transport to the slaughterhouse.
0:14 people disembarking at Hilo Port, 0:36 views of Mauna Loa, 0:54 a forest of large ferns, 1:22 people walking through the forest, 2:05 Lehua Flowers and Ohia Trees, 2:28 the crater of the Kilauea Volcano, 3:01 the lava landscape of Kau, 3:20 Lehua Flowers, 3:39 sign dedicated to 1950 Kaohe Flow, 3:59 Kalapana Beach, 4:22 Coffee plants being harvested, 5:11 different types of flowers, 5:45 a man posing with flowers, 5:55 Heliconia flowers, 6:14 a “bird of paradise” flower, 6:32 different shots of the “city of refuge”, 7:32 Night Blooming Cereus in Kailua, 8:03 Mina Birds sitting on cattle, 8:20 probably Parker Ranch, a cattle boat being loaded in Kailua Bay. Because the ranch did not have a dock, they would be herded into the water, secured to a launch, and then taken out to a freighter for shipment to the mainland 10:04 a freighter in the distance, 10:18 cattle, probably from the Parker Ranch, being loaded onto a larger ship, 10:44 old Moana Kea lava flows, 11:17 a man picking prickly pears from a cactus and eating them, 11:57 a waterfall, 12:11 different types of flowers, 13:01 a Barrintonia Speciosos Tree with hotel employees holding its flowers, 13:38 a man water skiing next to the ship of the cameraperson.
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