# 1950s HAWAII TRIP HOME MOVIE with MAUNA LOA VOLCANO ERUPTION 59754

This silent 16mm home movie shows a trip to Hawaii around 1950. It starts with a cruise aboard a sailboat. The film begins at sea aboard the boat, in fair seas (:57). At 1:06 a sextant is used to locate position, while at 1:15 a woman takes the wheel. At 2:26 , a group of tourists pose in leis, and at 3:45 the group takes a break for a drink. At 4:11 the captain is seen lashing his guests with a whip (!) while the boat rides at anchor. Starting at about 5:00 , you will see a silent, commercially made movie of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano. At 8:30 the home movie footage resumes with imags of a large tall ship at anchor in Honolulu harbor, the Nippon Maru. At 9:00 , a placid beach is shown on the edge of the jungle. At 11:26 , a native girl is shown selling necklaces. The film ends with shots of sailboats at sea. Nippon Maru shown in the film is a Japanese museum ship and former training vessel. She is permanently docked in Yokohama harbor, in Nippon Maru Memorial Park. She was built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation in Kobe, and was launched on 27 January 1930 alongside her sister ship Kaiwo Maru. She was operated by the Tokyo Institute for Maritime Training to train officers for Japan's merchant marine. At the beginning of World War II, her sailing rig was removed and she served as a training and postwar transport motorship. In 1952, her rig was reinstalled and she resumed her training voyages until she was replaced in September 1984 by her successor, also named…

- Kind: Home movie
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/59754ThrillsOfTheSurf)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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