Aloha friends and supporters of the archive!
Another year is coming to a close and the staff at ʻUluʻulu would like to take this time to wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year! Mahalo nui for your support throughout 2015 - because of you, our collection is growing!
So what is our wish for this upcoming year? That you check your closets, drawers or garage for any old 8mm, 16mm or videotapes! Please do not let these treasures disintegrate. ʻUluʻulu is a terrific educational resource - unique as well as important - and its mission is to preserve and share the moving image history of Hawaiʻi. You play an important role by participating in this effort.
Thanks to the Trustees of The Don Ho Revocable Living Trust, we now have his incredible collection. We not only will be able to preserve his video/audio history for future generations but also a period in Hawaiʻi like no other time -- the 1960's when Hawaiian entertainment ruled, beach boys ran the surf concessions, soldiers crammed the sidewalks looking for "rest and recuperation" from the Vietnam War and Do Ho was the crooner king of Waikiki.
We also took in Eddie and Myrna Kamae's wonderful video collection - a legacy of Hawaiian history and environment. Since 1991, this couple has worked tirelessly preserving Hawaiian storytelling. Again, an educational opportunity that will be felt far into the future.
We have had many visitors, presentations, workshops, and other events but nothing that pleased us more than the long-awaited installation of our electronic mobile shelving system -- a mile worth of it! Now staff can safely and efficiently house original archival media in our 2,000 square foot climate-controlled vault.
So while we accomplished a lot in 2015, we look forward to accomplishing even more in the coming year! Visit us on our website or be sure to stop in - we would love to give you a tour!
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New Acquisitions and Collections
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Don Ho
This collection contains videotapes, motion picture film reels, and audio recordings related to the life and career of Donald Tai Loy Ho (1930-2007), one of Hawaiʻi's most famous entertainers.
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Hawaiian Legacy Foundation
This collection contains videotape production materials, raw footage, interviews and edited masters related to documentary films directed and produced by Eddie and Myrna Kamae from 1988-2012 as part of the Hawaiian Legacy Series.
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Mitsuo Aoki
This collection contains production materials and raw footage related to the documentary film Living Your Dying produced by Lotus Films in 2003 about the work of Rev. Mitsuo Aoki, founder of the UH Department of Religion and co-founder of Hospice Hawaii.
Keith Kalani Akana
This collection contains materials related to the television program Manaleo (1996-1999); the Hoʻomau concerts for Pūnana Leo and Kula Kaiapuni (1994-2003); and the South Kona Oral History Video Project (1998-2000) produced by Keith Kalani Akana.
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George E. Cabral Sr. and George E. Cabral Jr.
This collection contains materials recorded by George E. Cabral Sr. and George E. Cabral Jr., two generations of Hawaiʻi-based news photographers and cameramen.
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Kamehameha Schools
This collection contains videotape and film recordings of edited programs and raw footage related to public programming produced by Kamehameha Schools Community Relations and Communications Group. Programs include the television show Imua Kamehameha and Kamehameha Schools Song Contest.
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We also received additions to the Hawaiʻi Home Movie Collection and the Hawaiʻi Educational Film Collection from Scott Amona, Rick Helin, Kaala Pat Ridley Jay, Rike Weiss, and Claudia Chotzen.
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Digital Preservation
In 2015, we digitized 381 videotapes and films totaling 235 hours of footage!
We launched a 2-year collaborative project with the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities and the Center for Labor Education and Research to digitize 100 hours of the Rice and Roses television series and make it available for curriculum development.
Here's a sample of other titles digitized this year:
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ʻOnipaʻa 1993, the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Office of Hawaiian Affairs Collection)
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1940s UH football (Hawaiʻi Public Broadcast Collection)
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Lauhala weaving with Aunty Esther Makuaole (Juniroa Productions Collection)
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Hawaii - Paradise Plus (1948), promotional film for the Hawaii sugar industry (Daniel K. Inouye Congressional Collection)
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Television and Film Premieres
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Click above to watch an introduction to ʻUluʻulu
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Our first in-house original programming series premiered on ʻŌlelo Community Television in November introducing Hawaiʻi television audiences to archival footage and our role in preserving the moving image history of Hawaiʻi.
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Archival footage was also researched and used in:
- "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown" Hawaii episode on CNN
- "Dear Thalia" - a documentary about Hawaiʻi's houseless population
- "A Sakada Story" - a short story about Filipino plantation laborer Cipriano Erice
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Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina with UH West O‘ahu students and staff after their presentation
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Events, tours and groups we've hosted this year:
- Black and White: The Early Years of Dan Inouye at the Hawaii International Film Festival
- Celebrating Hōkūleʻa events with Elisa Yadao, Cliff Watson, Polynesian Voyaging Society crewmembers, and ʻŌiwi TV
- ʻUluʻulu filmmakers series with Joan Lander and Puhipau of Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina
- Mana Moana, featuring Maori filmmakers Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley [side note: we are ecstatic for Taika and Chelsea as they launch a career in Hollywood - directing the next Thor feature!].
- Hawaiian Handbook Symposium, part of the Hawaiian Media Makers Series organized by PIC
- Kumu Waiwai Workshop for approximately 25 teachers from Nānākuli High and Intermediate School
- Hawaiʻi History Day Kick-Off
- Creative Media Master Class Series with Justin Chon, Joseph Vincent, D-Trix, and Dane Neves
- Class visits from Leeward Community College Film Analysis class, Kamehameha Schools Video Production class, UH West Oʻahu Hawaiian Language and Creative Media classes, Tokai University History class and more!
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Cliff Watson and Elisa Yadao with Heather after their Celebrating Hōkūleʻa presentation
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Mana Moana: Pasifika Storytelling through Land and Film
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We've also welcomed many distinguished visitors, including:
- Mrs. Dawn Amano-Ige, First Lady of Hawaiʻi
- Roy & Hilda Takeyama
- Colleen Hanabusa, Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Dr. Pat Deleon, Former employee of Senator Daniel K. Inouye
- Patricia Zell, Former employee of Senator Daniel K. Inouye
- Lynn Davis, Recently retired Head of Preservation Dept. (UHM
- Honolulu Councilman Ron Menor
- The Giugni ʻOhana
- The Lee ʻOhana
- Luana and Kathy Kawelu, Merrie Monarch Festival
- Kumu Hula Noenoelani Zuttermeister
- Alan Gamble, President of the Mits Aoki Legacy Foundation
- Gene Kois, Filmmaker
- Chris Skapik, Retired news photographer
- Maori filmmakers Taika Waititi & Chelsea Winstanley
- Kukui Maunakea-Forth, Executor Director of MA‘O Farms
- Kamuela Enos, Social Enterprise Director of MA‘O Farms
- Maile Meyer, Nā Mea Hawaiʻi
- Aaron Sala, Director of Culture at the Royal Hawaiian Center
- UH Media Arts Consortium
- ACM UH Mānoa Faculty
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Training students and new professionals in the field
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We worked with and trained several students in 2015, including:
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- Hugh Fleming, UHWO Creative Media Intern (Spring 2015)
- April Rodriguez, Roselani Media Preservation Intern (Aug-Sept 2015)
- Kevin Becheyda, UHWO Creative Media Directed Study student, taught by Heather Giugni (Fall 2015)
- UHWO Creative Media 396A students in "Moving Image Archives for Filmmakers," taught by Janel Quirante (Fall 2015)
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We screened archival footage from our collections at various venues in 2015 including:
- Nerd Spring Break at Interisland Terminal in March featuring two films - "Community Planning Program" from the Victoria Keith Productions Collection and "Kapiolani Park 1977 - Time Capsule" produced by Videololo.
- The Northwest Film Center in Portland, OR where we previewed newly digitized footage from "Singer presents...Hawaii-Ho!" (1968) to a very appreciative crowd of moving image archivists.
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For the third year in a row, we have been fortunate to participate in the Hawaii International Film Festival. This year we screened never-before-seen black and white film footage of Sen. Daniel Inouye from the Daniel K. Inouye Congressional Collection. This compilation film, called Black and White: The Early Years of Dan Inouye, traces Inouye during a period when Hawai‘i stood out as an extraordinary state among states that could boast about the success of its multicultural community. This film was made prior to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act and is truly a primary educational resource for students and researchers everywhere.
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Professional Development
Our staff have participated in and presented at several conferences and events this year, including:
- Hawaiian Digital Resources Series at Kahuku Public & School Library, February
- Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, March
- Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), College Park, Maryland, July
- Indigenous Education Symposium, Honolulu, May
- AMIA Webinars
- Archives & Records Association of New Zealand, Auckland, NZ, September
- AMIA: Association of Moving Image Archivists, Portland, Oregon, November
- Hawaiian Media Makers Conference, Kapolei, November
- Hawaiʻi Library Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, December
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2015 by the numbers
New Collections: 12
Audiovisual Items Acquired: 7,673
Hours Digitized: 235
New Clips on Website: 240
Videos streamed: 277
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Looking forward to 2016
A few projects we're continuing to work on this upcoming year:
- Our first traveling exhibit at the Kapolei Public Library! Hoʻokele: Navigation of the Moving Image History of the Hōkūleʻa scheduled to open mid-January
- Collaborating on a movie trailer for the new Regal Theatres opening in Kapolei this coming April
- Teaching a moving image archives graduate Library and Information Science course at UH Mānoa in spring 2016
- Continuing to work with students at Tokai University to translate Japanese language footage in our collections
- Accepting applications for the next Roselani Media Preservation Intern for summer 2016
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to you in 2016!
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