The beautiful Hawaiian islands in 1906 in color! [AI enhanced & colorized]
This film shows the beauty of Hawaii over 116 years ago! This is a compilation of vintage film footage by the Thomas Edison film company in 1906. Among other you can watch the relaxed life of a fishing community, everyday life on ranches, native Hawaians arriving and leaving a "Luau" party, spended views of Oahu and the town of Honolulu, including Waikiki beach, as well as great beach scenes.
The film footage has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, enhanced and colorized by means of Artificial Intelligence video software.
Music: Gerard Franklin.
Notes: We tried to find copyright free Hawaiian music, but failed (KZread rejected everything we tried). So there was no other option than to use nice neutral music from contemporary composers.
And yes, everybody in this film is dead and there are no obese, fat people in this film (just to pre-empt some of the usual comments). Please make interesting, educational comments about how Hawaii was at the beginning of the last century, preferably with the mentioning of lesser known (historic) facts about these beautiful islands. That will really make the comments section enjoyable to read!
If possible, kindly also refrain from starting an inflamatory debate about how the US annexed the Hawaiian islands. Thank you.
I hope you will enjoy this film. The original B&W footage was far from being in high quality: lots of visual noise, damage and overall motion-instability. Nevertheless the A.I. has done quite a good job.
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That beginning is poignant.....their youth and their innocence.......that was once me and my brother playing in the tidal pools at Sandys beach, so so long ago. Hes gone now, but always in my heart and memories forever.🌴🌊🙏
Proud to be Hawaiian and from Hawai’i.
@kahekilikahahawai586
10 ай бұрын
It’s Kanaka mailing not Hawaiian brah
@ikaikaxkeahi
10 ай бұрын
@@kahekilikahahawai586 Hawaiian, Kanaka Maoli, Kanaka ʻōiwi, whatever you want to say, you get what I mean ah. Btw it's "Kanaka Maoli" not Kanaka "mailing" okay? Lmao.
It's amazing to see the Hawai‘i my grandmother grew up in. Mahalo nui for sharing this.
@kahekilikahahawai586
10 ай бұрын
More like great great grandma brah this is 1906
I LOVED the video and the music! So peaceful! Thank you!
@Rick88888888
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is absolutely priceless. Thanks very much for your great effort Rick.
Rick, thanks as ever for your work in bringing these to YT. I appreciate your introductory comment to pre-empt the eejits. Unfortunately, the xenophobes and those lacking a sense of perspective and historical context will always be drawn to these older films, peddling their banalities. However, please don't ever be disheartened by some of the noisier, less nuanced commentators to this channel - I'm sure the vast majority that never comment are aligned with, and approve of, your approach and underlying motivations.
@Rick88888888
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
I lived in Hawaii (Big Island and Oahu) for 10 years. It is indeed a beautiful land. And the local citizens are exquisite people. If you make friends with a Hawaiian, you have a brother or sister for life. But sadly much of it is now spoiled by hoards of drunks, junkies, meth heads, and punk gangsters from outside. You take a chance of getting robbed if you park at Walmart. It's much the same here where I live in Alaska. Just 30 years ago, Anchorage was a cool place to be. Not any more. Wonderful video of how it once was. These videos are totally amazing. Kind thanks for sharing them here for all to enjoy.
@kahekilikahahawai586
10 ай бұрын
Prob cause you haole
This is so cleverly done, must be an art to it and very satisfying for you, and us, to see these old movies come alive. Thank you
2:30 We all notice how well-dressed the people are in these old films, but that's a bit over the top for a dusty country road! Also at 4:55, presumably it's the boss doing an inspection.
Fascinating! Loved the section with the soldiers doing what looks like an early version of the "Jerusalema" dance!!
Forwarded this to my cousin who is half Hawaiian.
Ah! A long time before Monsanto cast its shadow over the land.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful Hawaii of yesteryear
Oh, and keep up the excellent work. We know how time consuming it is to produce quality work. Please keep sending it so we can appreciate the time well spent! Mahalo!
@Rick88888888
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
That is a very interesting video, Rick and well put together. Thank you . About 25 years ago I rode the tourist version of the sugar cane train.
Amazing work rick 👌
Very cool and special. So this is the Hawaii that my great great grandparents lived in.
This is most interesting. Thank you very much
Rick I love your videos I am so fascinated with the history of them I just can't get enough of them I watched them over and over and over with love from New Jersey USA
@Rick88888888
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Your videos are so incredible you are so talented
@Rick88888888
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
Beautiful to see the islands~A once upon a time story~
Very interesting, thank you
Ja altijd leuk die filmpies van vroeger, ik hou er van👍👍👍
What an awesome film.
on the big island you can still find remnants of the old sugar cane rail lines
miracle time machine CINEMA - young people bathing have grown old and are no longer alive, and you see them like that - when you were not even in the project ... MIRACLE
115 years later it is still a harsh world.
I never get to see this when I was inside the museum in Maui !
Interesting. Noted one horseless carriage (automobile) and a few bicycles in Honolulu. All the railroads, hundreds of miles, are apparently long gone. Few if any tourists I presume, and no hula girls.
Very nice there, another time working with the hands, noe there are machines
Only 13 years after the overthrow and 8 years after annexation…
@kahekilikahahawai586
10 ай бұрын
Illegal overthrow you mean
Muito bom fundo musical perfeito.
Um abraço do Brasil !!!!!
24:17 Look it's the wave sliding club
So many hats.....
9:46 Teddy Roosevelt’s doppelgänger
Rick, I understand your issue with finding copyright free Hawaiian music, however, I didn't see where you might have posted your attribution to the creative commons music you did select.
@Rick88888888
2 жыл бұрын
I don't have to. The music comes from a paid subscription that covers the copyright and is provided especially for KZread content creators.
Paradise Lost
Lovely video and audio, but the 2021 me wants to take a whip to that guy at 2:18, just like he did for seemingly no good reason. Ugh. The last guy was even worse. It's sad to watch.
@twistoffate4791
2 жыл бұрын
lockergr, Exactly... I left a similar comment. It's sickening to see some jerk whip a voiceless, defenseless, helpless animal. Whip the jerk and see how he likes it. That's why I end up unsubscribing. The title does not let on to the evil lurking just inside the video. No thanks.
The final panorama sweep - is that Waikiki and Diamond Head?
@SCCPioneers
2 жыл бұрын
Yes... The pier you see is the creation of the first iteration of the Moana Hotel and was used for watching surfers and outriggers from an ocean perspective. Edison had one film where he shot from that pier as surfers flew past
@MarkThomas820
2 жыл бұрын
@@SCCPioneers Thank you. Most every year in the 1980's I stayed in the Moana Hotel - pre and post refurbishment - on the way back to New Zealand in our winter from Europe - to rest from a long flight and get a tan - the fenced lawn, bliss. What an a remarkable change the refurbishment made to the space and furnishings of the Moana. The American hospitality, professionalism and grace was a restorative in itself.
Looks nothing like that now. My dad was born and raised on Oahu and I’ve been there many times to visit family for vacation
Can you do one of Guam please!!
@Rick88888888
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry, I don't have anything on Guam
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11:09 First Slow TV)
@dianehansen5552
3 жыл бұрын
Don't be self righteous about history. The 'native' Hawaiians in these images were colonizers from Tahiti. These 'natives' enslaved, killed or drove the original inhabitants into the mountains centuries earlier. We are all colonizers.
No way :)
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Quite something. This was a Hawaii. I'll never see! We're destroying South Florida much the same way as Honolulu with the big skyscrapers that no one needs!😮😢
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No shaved ice ?
Damn hawaii looked like a regular state back then lol now it look like a personal resort for americans now
@kahekilikahahawai586
10 ай бұрын
White Americans
What are they doing
There was video cameras in 1905!?
@lesharkoiste
3 жыл бұрын
Film* cameras have been around since the late 19th century
3:42 Somebody know what's happening in this moment? Is it sheep-cleaning service?)
@franzjosefkerkhoff592
3 жыл бұрын
Desiinfecion against sone insects!
@SCCPioneers
2 жыл бұрын
Ever herard the derogatory phrase "It tastes like 'sheep dip'!" It's to disenfect right after shearing. It also protects against external parasites like "itch mites", ticks, and lice.
O zaman Hawaii japonya'yamı aitti 🤔⁉️
Poor animals. Poor field laborers. This is not what it seems. Very hard times. Many immigrated from far away lands and were taken advantage of by light skinned plantation owners. We've come a long way, but its still happening, in different forms, such as amazon warehouses, and fast food.
@abbydabby475
3 жыл бұрын
Wow you are being forced to work at Amazon?! Im so sorry.
16:00 look how women wear very long clothes to cover their legs this is what called modesty
@caustichonu
2 жыл бұрын
Those are the pa‘u riders. Some of the most elegant horse riders to this day.
Great video that you shared. however it does piss me off because the people at that time had no education of what was to come amongst hawaii the whole illegal overthrow stealing crown lands and the big financial mess hawaii suffers today if hawaii had not been stolen it would of still been affordable to live on our own island. Alot of people of today cannot grasp the truth about hawaii their first instinct is well lucky hawaii was taken by the u.s i shake my head and say to myself your just as stoopid to listening to everyone else one person jump in the fire everyone else follows and thats why hawaii is unaffordable to live on gentrification the plan was to push hawaiians and locals out what do people don't get. Without the u.s being in hawaii everyone would be 30% richer why you wouldn't need to pay fica taxes.