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Secretary of War Hugh Davis visits military family camp and Kilauea National Park in Hawaii.
U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis visiting sites of interest in Hawaii. Rustic military Headquarters building displays sign, "Kilauea Military Camp." A car drives up and passengers step out to be greeted happily by women and children who have been waiting on the building porch. (Slate explains that this is a military rest camp a half mile from the Kilauea crater.) Camera pans across cabins occupied by military families. Some soldiers are seen having fun on the grounds. Camp visitors are seen looking across a crater at smoke rising from the active Mauna Loa volcano. View from behind of Secretary Davis conversing with the Superintendent, Richard T. Evans, of Kilauea National Park, as they both watch the steaming crater. A huge chunk of lava rock bearing a sign that reads: "8 tons, hurled over one mile high during eruption May, 1924." A slug of lava clinging to skeleton of a tree. Sign at base of tree reads: "Don't touch spatter on trees, Very Fragile."
Film makes case that Japanese in Hawaii gave intelligence to Japanese Consulate before Pearl Harbor attack
Film argues that Japanese Americans in Hawaii collaborated with Japanese Consul-General to provide intelligence information prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Animation illustrates the demographics of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii in 1924 and the few, who by 1933, had chosen to expatriate themselves from Japan under the Japanese Exclusion Act. Birthrates are illustrated, and numbers of Japanese registering children with the Japanese consulate retain Japanese citizenship. A dramatization shows a man acting as Uncle Sam and another as an American citizen. They discuss Japanese temples and language schools in Hawaii. The Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii. A Japanese man relays intelligence to a Japanese officer in the Japanese consulate. A Japanese family seated on the porch of a house. American ships in Pearl Harbor as seen from the house. Japanese children and woman as they look at American ships moving in Pearl Harbor. Shows how Japanese observers keep eyes on the activities in Pearl Harbor. A Japanese man talks with a Japanese officer in the consul. Japanese observers take pictures of American ships in Pearl Harbor. (World War II period).
Passengers and crew aboard USS Great Northern depart San Francisco and arrive at Honolulu Hawaii
People leaving for the Hawaiian Islands from San Francisco. Ship USS Great Northern (later AG-9 USS Columbia) departing from harbor in San Francisco, bound for Hawaii. Passengers and crew on the decks wave. Waves break on a moonlit beach. View of Pier 7 building at docks in Honolulu harbor, the capital of Oahu island. A crowd on the pier. Women at the dock side holding leis to greet guests.
Honolulu, Hawaii, and Hamakua Coast, Hawaii
Views of the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. A large home fronted by royal palms. Pedestrian traffic on King St. in the business district, including Japanese and Chinese in native costumes. Open front of a Japanese tea store. Women and children outside the store. A peddler carries vegetable produce in baskets hung from a pole across his shoulders. Views of the Hawaii Railway, Hamakua Coast, Hawaii island: Interior of a passenger car. Countryside and tunnels viewed from the train. A very high railway bridge with a sugar cane flume below it, across a valley on the Hamakua Coast.
Men harvest pineapples in a field in Hawaii.
A pineapple plantation in Hawaii. Workers cut pineapples by hand. The pineapples are canned for shipment to America. In a cannery, workers sort the pineapples.
Men prepare poi from taro roots in Hawaii.
A plantation in Hawaii. A man climbs a palm tree. Another man examines a papaya. Two men carry a hot tub the contents of which are covered with a cloth. A group around the tub on the ground prepares roots. A steaming tub of taro root over an open fire with a man poking at the fire. The roots are dumped into a shallow wooden bowl and pounded to pulp with wooden tools. Two men knead and pound the poi. A man tastes the poi while pounding it.