Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise

Clip 3: Quintessential paradise

1 min 39 sec

Taken from the documentary Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise (2005)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

Exotic images of the Hula girl continued during the Second World War with the presence of American forces stationed in Hawaii. Joe O’Neil, antiques and souvenir collector, displays his collection of Hula girl souvenirs and explains their fascination. The end of the clip illustrates how a flurry of Hollywood movies such as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific began to use the Polynesian region as a backdrop for epic stories of love and war.

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