WWII - 1940s, USA Feature: December 7th R1 of 13

WWII - 1940s, Hawaii Documentary Drama: re Agriculture & Commerce Background Shots of sunken ship & destroyed plane on airfield. 00:00:32 CU USA War Department letter signed by Henry Stimson soliciting a film on conditions before & on 07Dec41. 00:00:51 CU Hawaiian woman / Miss Kim being questioned & taking notes for off-screen Uncle Sam. Pan of tourist briefcase etc in Hawaiian hotel room & 06Dec41 newspaper; past Uncle Sam top hat & on to Walter Huston pacing & dictating SOF poetic description of Hawaii to secretary taking notes. MS of Harry Davenport / Mr. C listening & who says he’ll add other things; argues w/ Huston who says “mood is broken” & dismisses Miss Kim. Mr. C (conscience) lectures about background w/ Uncle Sam & US history. 00:05:18 Mr. C asks how much Sam knows about sugar cane & pineapples. Sam says: “its a pioneering story that compares favorably with the opening of the west.” Narrates behind scenes of harvesting / loading cane on steam train & to refinery. 00:06:13 Man picking pineapples; cases on railroad freight cars. MCU water tower in as pineapple & LS of Honolulu, street scenes w/ traffic & montage of exteriors of Territorial Government building, municipal building, library, University, King Kamehameha school, Academy of Arts, homes, residential houses, churches. 00:07:30 Montage of hotels on Waikiki beach; port / harbor scene, businesses w/ signs: Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Theo H. Davies & Co Ltd Sugar Factors, Wholesale Merchants, American Factors. Building exteriors. 00:08:08 Montage of signs: Bishop Trust Company Ltd., Bishop National Bank, Advertiser Publishing Co. Ltd., Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 00:08:17 MCU Uncle Sam finishing lecturing Mr. C. who replies that he didn’t cover Labor which did all the work. Sam says: “...and they did a good job...the natives.” Conscience: “You know as well as I do that the majority of laborers were & are Japanese....let’s not overlook the majority of the population here, the Japanese. They too have their pioneers.” WW2 Docudrama; History; Business; Economics; Ethnic Workers; 1941; USA Government Propaganda; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.