| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (55 min.)) |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online ; volume 3 |
| Summary |
Like hula, surfing was viewed as immoral by European missionaries to Hawai'i, so it had languished until the early twentieth century when the first tourist hotels appeared in Waikiki, and a small band of watermen began to earn their livelihood from surfing instruction and providing outrigger canoe rides for tourists. Award-winning documentarian Caroline Yacoe portrays the current Waikiki Beach Boys as preservers of surfing culture. A surfer herself, Yacoe combines archival footage, interviews with former and current Beach Boys, and music performed by Beach Boy musicians such as the Waikiki Sunset Jammahs. Co-producer and narrator Francine Mikiala Palama reveals both the hard work it takes to become a Beach Boy and how the tradition is passed on. The narration also tells how the 'Ambassadors of Aloha' found romance and a 24-hour party for themselves and for the tourists. Says Beach Boy Woody Brown: 'We're giving them a point of view from the ocean. Looking at the island is a lot different, showing them things they don't see from the land.' This documentary is a cinematic love song to the Waikiki Beach Boys, using archival footage, interviews and music to show how the 'Ambassadors of Aloha' preserve the surf culture and teach it to visitors |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2014) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Surfing -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
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Surfing.
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| SUBJECT |
Waikiki (Honolulu, Hawaii) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83205393
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| Subject |
Hawaii -- Honolulu.
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Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Waikiki.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Yacoe, Caroline, film director, film producer.
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Jordan, Eric, film director, film producer.
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Palama, Francine Mikiala, narrator.
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