South Seas Cinema Genre: Recent Comments

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2010-09-01T13:05:39Z

You are our kind of guy! Welcome to your internet South Seas Cinema home because you are now a member. This blog is becoming active and you will be on our email list. Let us know when you will be in Hawaii again (via email) and we will make sure we have a meeting and you will be a honored member guest. I personally am into Polynesian Architecture also. Expect a member certificate shortly via email. Mahalos and congratulations!

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2010-09-01T12:51:19Z

Now that is South Seas love and we know you would love to be a member so you are. Congratulations. You will be added on our email list and soon you will get a certificate of membership. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. This blog will be active again.

Comment on New Website southseascinema.org What do you think?

2010-08-26T09:55:28Z

I like your style, the fact that your site is a little bit different makes it so interesting, I get fed up of seeing same-old-same-old all of the time. I've just stumbled this page for you :-D

Mahalo
Commando
Upena haku

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2010-05-15T02:22:54Z

In the early 70's, I helped design and build Marlon Brando's island of Tetiaroa, in Tahiti and fell in love with the South Seas. We have been to Hawaii 8 times, Tahiti 6 times, the Cooks twice, Fiji and the Marquesas once. We have tikis, colorful parios, island carvings, masks and Hawaiian shirts (many bought in thrift shops on Oahu). Back, around 1956, I helped design housing for FT. Trippler and Shafter. About a month ago, I started to collect South Sea movies on DVD.
I searched the internet and started to make a master list. THEN, I found your site ! Amazing ! You have done all the work. If I had only found you sooner, it would have saved a ton. Thank you.

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2008-12-30T10:01:10Z

Have yearned to experience more good movies about the South Seas since childhood exposure to Olson and Johnson Travelogues along with early impressions being formed within myself - e.g. shuddering from Charles Laughton's frightfully strong Capt. Bligh portrayal along with Clark Gable's Fletcher Christian - the latter a 16th cousin 8th removed. Met Emil Gauguin in 1963. During that summer I fell in love with a beautiful Vahine. Her name was something like, "Hortense Salwanaeiagon". Here, in Los Angeles I frequented the Clifton's South Sea Island Cafeteria during the 1940s and 5os. Read Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa in which he said how great a piece of music Chopin's 1st Ballade in g minor, op.23 was in his estimation - another connection, as I was currently performing this work. I liked Brando's "Mutiny On the Bounty" in 1962,and met him that year. Mel Gibson's 1982 "Bounty" filmed particularly on Moorea made another impact on me. In the early 1950s "Return to Paradise", that film also further placed my heart-felt romanticism in Tahitian waters. Or, should I say Mangarevan waters. Books, such as Ralph Varady's "Many Lagoons", and Thor Heyerdahl's "Fatu Hiva" helped keep my personal goals on course of someday living in Polynesia. I returned (divorced) with my two children in 1989. Again, in 2008, my son and a girl friend went back. Once Polynesia gets in one's blood, so to speak, one is forever hooked.

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2008-06-01T09:46:19Z

Congratulations you are a new member of our Society. You meet the membership requirement - a keen interest in South Seas Cinema. Since you are in Honolulu we will email you an announcement for our next meeting in August.

Upena Haku

Comment on Want to know more about the SOUTH SEAS CINEMA SOCIETY?

2008-05-31T21:47:46Z

Hello - came across mention of the society in the reyes book "Made in paradise; Hollywood's Films of hawaii and the South seas". I would like to be a member. I am currently a student at UH and am focusing my dissertation on the relationship between hollywood and hawaii. I would love to participate in your casual discussions as I feel I have much to learn (I have until 2010 to write on my topic) from the sage viewers that comprise the society. I just missed the April 20 meeting and too bad- a friend just loaned me Hula Girls! Oh well- I will check in for the next one! - sarah

Comment on Want to add comments, more information or corrections to our SHOWS list or anything else with the South Seas Cinema website? Then comment here.

2008-04-15T19:21:17Z

Thank you for noticing one of our "gems" of information that we are proud of. A fews years ago I was working on a movie and a couple of veteran Hawaiian stuntman was working on it also. I as I am, I pressed the stutman for as much information I could about them and their history in the Californian film industry. When they realized my interest in South Seas Cinema they both told me this story that they just worked on a movie with acclaimed actor David Strathairn and when Strathairn found out that these stuntmen where originally from Hawaii he proudly approach them saying that he was part-Hawaiian also. They were, as well as I, flabergasted! Although he is light brown we still couldn't believe it even though it came out of his own mouth. As my nature I needed to confirm the information. In the last few years I found the "Hawaiian" mention in a couple of small websites with no sources listed. Not good enough because a few other actors or so-called sources for other actors claimed Polynesian ancestry but it has been only to spin actor's bio to sensationalize bachground from a publicity department. For example, if an actor has a relative who has lived in Hawaii (whether having Hawaiian blood or not) they are labled "Hawaiian" some actors like Lou Diamond Phillips did not even realized he had this label until approached on the matter for verifcation. I had the privledge a few months ago to represent a director's team at a big award show in L.A., David Strathairn was present as one of the presenters but afterwards he disappeared into the crowd and I missed him but for this website as I was correcting and verifying data I was surfed to Strathairn own offical website were I glad to confirm his Hawaiian ancestry on his own offical website. A good source. http://www.david-strathairn.com/bio.html

Upena haku

Comment on Want to add comments, more information or corrections to our SHOWS list or anything else with the South Seas Cinema website? Then comment here.

2008-04-15T18:06:39Z

I notice DAVID STATHAIRN listed under Native Personalities on the Beach of Fame. Can you tell us what his ethnic heritage is? Mahalo.

Comment on Mahalo Nui (Thank you much) hollywoodhula.wordpress.com for featuring our website-check it out!

2008-04-08T18:44:26Z

Thanks for the shoutout SSC!