This color travelogue style film from the late 1960s or early 1970s titled “Schley Ride to Hawaii” was produced by Norman E. Schley. Schley was a skilled filmmaker from Wisconsin who made a series of films under the moniker “Schley Ride” or “Schley Focus Ride” through his company Picturelogue Inc. Some of his films aired on television, while others were shown in front of live audiences. This particular account, which is predominantly silent and the second installment of a four-part series around Hawaii, takes viewers along on a guided tour with the Circle Island Sightseeing Bus around the Island of O’ahu. Unlike the first-part of this installment, this film emphasizes the natural wonders of the island as opposed to the bustling city of Honolulu. The majority of the footage depicts remote beaches, valleys of green as seen from Nu‘uanu Pali Lookout, and the farming and agriculture industries dominated by Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co and Dole. “Schley Ride to Hawaii” is historically significant for the insight it offers into the development of Hawaii, and in this case Honolulu and the Island of O’ahu, in the years after Hawaii officially became the 50th state of the Union in 1959.

Yachts and sailboats at Ala Wai Boat Harbor in Honolulu (0:07). Fishermen sit on fishing boats, kids fish from the pier (0:31). Tourists board a Circle Island Sightseeing Bus (0:47). Byodo-In Temple and grounds (1:02). Koi fish (1:36). Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (1:45). Tour bus stops for photos at overlook of remote beach (2:08). Teenagers jump from rocks into the ocean (2:16). Stop at aquarium-like site to see the Hawaiian Reef – perhaps Waikiki Aquarium (2:44). Farming and agriculture in O’ahu: irrigation systems (6:08). Agriculture workers use wood chipper machine to clear fields (7:04). Pilot prepares to fly a solo plane that looks like Naval Aircraft Factory N3N (7:25). Plane flies through the air (8:27). Workers plow farm land and clear old sugarcane crops (8:57). Workers burn the fields to clear old crops resulting in smoke clouds (9:06). Pick-up truck drives away with harvested sugarcane (9:38). Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. estate and factory (9:51). Interior of factory – machines process and clean sugarcane crop (9:54). Purified white sugar on conveyor belt (11:06). Field of pineapple crop at the Dole Plantation (11:18). Tourists exit bus to explore the plants up close (11:30). Pineapples (11:42). Agricultural workers harvest the pineapples and collect them using modern machinery (11:53). Dole Plantation Visitor Center (12:30). Tourist, perhaps Norman E. Schley, bites into freshly peeled pineapple (13:34). Nu‘uanu Pali Lookout: onlookers’ clothes blow in the wind (13:42). Camera pans view as seen from the lookout (14:30). Surfers surfing big waves at what could be Sunset Beach in O’ahu (15:01). Sunbathers and kids on the sand (17:55). Illustrated map of the Hawaiian Islands (18:14).

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