12806_Hawaii_50th_state1
Subjects
1960
B&W
Old newsreel showing the Hawaiian Islands. Talks about how Captain Cook from England discovered the Hawaiian archipelago while showing shots of Hawaii’s coastal landscape and a wave breaking heavily on a rock. There is an old map of the United States showing Hawaii’s distance from Los Angeles and several people in flower leis gathering together in a small town to meet and vote on Hawaii becoming part of Union. Great close-ups of the faces of Hawaiian Islanders.