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...
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- 00:29:29
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.
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- 00:46:57
Pau hana at the Kāʻū sugar mill
Workers barbeque and play cards in the lunch room after the last day of work.
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- 00:10:00
Building in Pāhala
The filmmaker Cliff Watson and photographer Franco Salmoiraghi take pictures of abandoned building in Kāʻū.
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- 00:09:00
Japanese cemetery
Photographer Franco Salmoiraghi takes pictures of Japanese cemetery in Pāhala.
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- 00:10:51
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.
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- 00:55:43
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.
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- 00:31:01
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.
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- 00:25:00
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.
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- 00:05:00
Last day at the sugar mill in Kaʻu #3
Last day at the sugar mill in Kaʻū includes footage of raking and hauling cane, burning cane fields, and processing at the mill.
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- 00:10:19
Interview with Jesus Aderinto
Interview with Jesus Aderinto, rake man at the plantation.
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- 00:02:30
Last haul
Last sugarcane haul from plantation to mill. Includes drivers' decorating trucks and driving through Pāhala town for one last time.
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- 00:41:04
Traffic in Naʻalehu
Shots of street traffic in Naʻalehu, cars and motorcycles pass the camera.
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- 00:03:00