The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-05
Moving
Pictures
Of Hawaii.
Make Hit
Abroad
CINEOMATOGRAPHER BONNIE
WRITES HONOLULU FRIEND
WILL COME NEXT MONTH.

James Guild of this city is in receipt
of communication from r. K Bon
inc, the well known moving picture
man who visited these Islands and
obtained many choice views. The let
ter follows:
You can't imagine the great demand
there has been for moving picture
films within the past year, due OF
course to the great number of cheap
picture shows springing up all over
the country, but the demand is all for
comedy" or, in other words, anything
of a suggestive nature, and it was the
demand for this class of work that
kept the place so busy and held my
Hawaiian subjects back so long.
This part of the business is handled
in a separate department in New York
where they can secure the talent" or
actors, costumes, scenic painters, etc,
but the developing and finishing is all
done here at the factory. My inten-
ton was to quit with the Edison COM
pany on my return last fall, but l did
not want to leave the Hawaiian SUBJ
iects until they were finished and the
WORK completed, so remained on I'M
til several weeks ago on finishing up
my Panama canal subjects.
have resigned my position now and
am making preparations to make a
western trip some time quite soon and
on over to the islands some time in
July, so am looking forward to seeing
you again and giving you an oppor-
tunity to see the pictures | made last
summer.
l have purchased a set of my Ha-
waiian scenes and a complete project
ing apparatus with the object of Civ
ing some exhibitions and make a num-
Der of other scenes which was unable
to get last summer as l will be much
better equipped this time and able to
make and finish the work complete
and exhibit it before leaving the ISL
ands.
My Hawaiian plate negatives were
all put away in storage, as | was I'M
able to do anything with them and Just
at present l am pushing my Panama
negatives for lantern slide purposes
there being a temporary demand for
them owing to number of Senators
and M. C.'s having been down there
this past winter / shall be through
with this work shortly and will get to
work on my Hawaiian subjects as
am getting up a display of enlarge
ments to take with me to the islands
and besides have a number to whom
| intend sending some prints, includ-
ing yourself and Mr.. Buchanan to
whom | am indebted for valuable as
sistance and friendly courtesies. | have
some very good scenes of the cere-
monies at the opening of Kohala ditch
Of which | intend sending you each
some prints
l have recently given several very
successful exhibitions of my Hawaii
an scenes and enclose a paper account
of one given last Saturday evening to
the Orange Camera Club
The feature of the evening was
Scenes and Incidents in the Hawaiian
Islands, which consisted of moving
pictures by r. K. BONNIE of this city.
For wild, natural beauty there is
perhaps no place throughout the Ha-
waiian Islands more picturesque or
impressive than the graceful cocoanut
palms and the rugged, wave-beaten
lava coast of Laupahoehoe. This is a
most excellent scene, showing a steam
er landing her mail and passengers in
one of the toughest and most danger
Gus surf landings along the Hawaiian
coast.
A very interesting study in the beau
ty and power of sea waves, as they roll
up and pound and break over the
rough lava rocks at Laupahoehoe was
also shown
MlSSOURIAN FOR KAHULUI
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