Thomas Edison´s Hawaii Old Rare Footage 1906 Pt 2 Surf Scenes Waikiki + Hawaiian Party

Probably the first footage of surfing and one of the oldest footages of Hawaii
Thomas Edison´s Hawaii Old and Rare Footage 1906 Part 2
Surfboard Riders + Surf Scenes Waikiki + Hawaiians Arriving to a '' Luau ''
In 1906, Robert Bonine came to Hawaii for Thomas Edison to film an "Actuality" documentary of life in the Polynesian territory. The very first shot is a "Panoramic View, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu" a 360 degree view of 1906 Waikiki which shows men in suits and white skimmers and the women in full battle dress -- buttoned up to the neck, the wrists and the ankles. There are shots of native Hawaiians throwing net in malos, and there is a shot of a mass of kids playing King of the Hill on The Float -- most of them wearing tanksuits. The first moving pictures of surfers riding waves - Surf Riders, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu -- shows a minute of about a dozen surfers on alaia boards in head-high, offshore surf at what is probably Canoes. These surfers are shot too far away to detail what they were wearing, but they all appear to be in tanksuits as well.

[@MrDeadsurfer]

Nobody is riding Queen's! They're all at Canoes. You know Three's and Kaiser's are empty too. Oh, what I would give for a time machine and fountain of youth cocktail. I'd go back to 1906 with a modern quiver of boards and move to Hawaii. I have to envy my old deceased friend, the grandfather of my best friend, Paul Tulloh, who swam with the Duke in the Olympics and opened the first Safeway store in Hawaii.

[@mahlina1220]

.. Amazing how these footage are over 100 yrs. old!

[@hawaiisidecar]

Ho, no drop in!

[@steveyocom8406]

That was bitchen! Waikiki hasn't changed a bit. Did you see that horseback rider lose his hat and then come back to get it? That was cool.

[@UTubeGlennAR]

The last seen may not even have been shot in Hawaii it seems....

[@timanctil8225]

UTubeGlennAR It probably was... King Kamehameha the 3rd brought over a few Mexican cowboys from what is now California in the 1830's. Since then the Hawaiian cowboys have called themselves "paniolo", supposedly derived from "vaquero". The first sheep and cattle were brought to the islands in 1790. Heck, you can even go deer hunting on Molokai!

[@JB-sv5pr]

tim anctil maui kine tooo !

[@Tednessful]

Awesomeness...