The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-11
VOLCANO FILM
MUCH PRAISED
Mainland Papers Describe IT,
Promotion Value Is Being
Proved.

Through letters and newspaper clip
pings in the last mail attention is
again forcibly drawn to the immense
amount of promotion advertising Ha-
waii is receiving through the presenta-
tion before large mainland audiences of
Bonine's volcano picture All the lead
ing papers of Chicago have had extend
ed references to this remarkable pie
ture, the only one ever taken of
volcano by the light of it's own flowing
lavas; Minneapolis journals have spread
its fame through the northwest, and ex.
tended writeups of the film and the re-
suits obtained have been made in the
leading moving picture trade journals
of the Union. Farther East, among the
scientists. w. 4. Bryan has been ex-
hibiting the picture with great success
and by means or it has brought home
to thousands of cultured persons the at
traction Hawaii has for the tourist and
scientific investigator.
In the Chicago Record-Herald of
made, as follows:
Reference is made to the pictures
of the Lake of Fire. in Kilauea s
mammoth crater. The pictures were
taken under great difficulty, the artist,
Mr.. Bonine, being clothed in asbestos,
as was his camera. Despite this precau-
tion, both the artist and the camera
had narrow escape from incineration.
1t was worth the effort, however, for
upon the canvas for the first time, is
truthfully and startlingly portrayed a
river of molten lava as it flows down
the seamy sides of the crater, forming,
as it cools, into fantastic shapes. The
night picture is taken in the lava IS own |
light, and it is like gazing into the |
seething maws of ten thousand blast F!
furnaces, where the blazing metal is |
leaping, sputtering, boiling, cracking |
and roaring in an apparent riot of |
anger
.4ssIn the lava picture are seen the |
living seams which are opened in The |
mass and which criss-c cross through it |
like threads of lightning in a black and |
stormy sky. It is easy to credit the
lecturers statement that the picture
has tremendous scientific value. It
has it's psychological value,
for it sends Mr.. Holmes audiences
away breathless with astonishment and
interest and full of conversation re-
yarding Kilauea IS magic and awful
,rater.' -
Burton Holmes Pleased.
In a letter to Mr.. Bonine, Burton
Holmes says of the success he is meet
ng with the Hawaiian pictures:
''We put on stray Hawaiian quin-
eft today and it was a big go, with
musical accompaniment for the hula
md lei pictures and with Aloha Oe and
ther good things for the intermissions.
The boys made quite hit. The lava
lin seems to impress as it should. L
lear a lot of Ohsl and Ahsi for the
hawaiian homes, the Floral Parade
Genes, the surfing and the volcano
Jews. The audience certainly gets the
dea that Hawaii is pretty place. The
,oi picture amuses loudly and the
chool children tickle them too. -
Bryan Lecturing in East.
W. A. Bryan, writing to Mr.. Bonine
rom Boston, on November 19, says, IN
art:
ou Will be glad to know thaJ tne
1oving picture film and the lantern
lides arrived safely in New York late
he evening of November 18th. As I
'rote you [ had accepted an invitation
rom DR.. Bumpus to lecture and show
he pictures before the members and
riends of the American Museum of
Iatural History in New York City on
ne evening of November 18th. AS you
an see it was very close call, but
they arrived in time for
1e lecture.
I am happy to say that the lecture
ent off very satisfactorily indeed.
here were about a thousand invited
embers and guests in the audience,
nd they were all enthusiastic over
lis wonderful picture. I wish myself
congratulate you again on your
success in securing it. A !,
cry pretty compliment was paid by Il
any who had visited the volcano, but v
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