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Kaʻu Sugar: A Town Remembers production materials

This subcollection contains production material related to the documentary film, "Kaʻu Sugar: a Town Remembers" produced and directed by Cliff Watson for KHET-TV (PBS Hawaii) in 1996; photography by Cliff Watson. Extent: 34 videotapes, 3 floppy discs, 1 box of documents.

Genres

  • Documentary

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Kaʻu Sugar : A Town Remembers

Kaʻu Sugar : A Town Remembers

Photographer Cliff Watson wants to show the transition of the sugar culture that has dominated the isolated community of Pāhala on the Big Island...

Duration:
00:29:29
ʻEwa Sugar Plantation, 1995

ʻEwa Sugar Plantation, 1995

Last harvest and cane haul at the Oʻahu Sugar Company plantation in ʻEwa Hawaiʻi on April 8, 1995.

Duration:
00:13:23
Last Pāhala Bon Dance, 1999

Last Pāhala Bon Dance, 1999

Pāhala Hongwanji holds its last bon dance in 1999. Includes the service, ceremony, dancing, and interviews with members that grew up at the...

Duration:
01:00:40
Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #1

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #1

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻu includes footage of raking and hauling cane, burning cane fields, and processing at the mill.

Duration:
00:46:57
Pau hana at the Kāʻū sugar mill

Pau hana at the Kāʻū sugar mill

Workers barbeque and play cards in the lunch room after the last day of work.

Duration:
00:10:00
Cane fire at Kāʻu sugar field

Cane fire at Kāʻu sugar field

Before sugarcane is harvested, the field is burned "to remove the unproductive leafy material that makes up 20 to 25 percent of the cane plant. The...

Duration:
00:12:53
Building in Pāhala

Building in Pāhala

The filmmaker Cliff Watson and photographer Franco Salmoiraghi take pictures of abandoned building in Kāʻū.

Duration:
00:09:00
Japanese cemetery

Japanese cemetery

Photographer Franco Salmoiraghi takes pictures of Japanese cemetery in Pāhala.

Duration:
00:10:51
Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #2

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #2

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻu includes footage of raking and hauling cane, burning cane fields, and processing at the mill.

Duration:
00:55:43
Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #3

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻū #3

Last day at the sugar mill in Kāʻu includes footage of raking and hauling cane, burning cane fields, and processing at the mill.

Duration:
00:31:01
Closing down sugar mill in Kāʻū

Closing down sugar mill in Kāʻū

Last day at the sugar mill workers prepare for closing by shutting down machines and placing caution tape around some parts of the mill.

Duration:
00:25:00
Interview with worker

Interview with worker

Retired mill operator talks about emigrating to Hawaiʻi and his thoughts on the future of Kāʻū now that the plantation is closing.

Duration:
00:05:00
Interview with John Verbiske Jr.

Interview with John Verbiske Jr.

Interview with John Verbiske Jr., welder at the mill.

Duration:
00:29:16
Sugar mill camp and Pāhala town

Sugar mill camp and Pāhala town

Shots of sugar mill camp, Pāhala town, and Japanese shrine.

Duration:
00:04:35
Interview with Hajime Ueda, Kenneth Ito, and Masayuki Kai

Interview with Hajime Ueda, Kenneth Ito, and Masayuki Kai

Interview with Hajime Ueda, Kenneth Ito, and Masayuki Kai about growing up and working on the planation.

Duration:
00:57:06
Interview with Charles Sakamoto

Interview with Charles Sakamoto

Interview with Charles Sakamoto, mill operator.

Duration:
00:31:02