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Location: big island | In the first few weeks of 1959, the same year Hawaii achieves statehood, a major volcanic eruption takes place in the "backyard" of Kapoho town's residents on the Big Island of Hawaii. Nearly everything you see in this video is currently buried under 50 feet of lava. Only a couple structures survived. I discovered this 3 1/2 minute silent film among the reels of 8mm family films that a friend of mine contracted me to digitize for her. I took the liberty to add music, sound effects and narration to this clip. The opening music is "Pupu A'o Ewa" by The Cazimero Brothers. The narrative and closing music is "Hawai'i Pono'i" on Jack DeMello's "Music of Hawai'i" CD. For further and very interesting information regarding this eruption please check out this link: http://vhca.info/docs/1959.pdf |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Great job Randy!! |
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Location: Winter Haven, FL | Wow, that's awesome. Thanks for posting. |
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Location: Jet City | Good job, scary video. |
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Location: NJ | This on the heels of watching a two-hour PBSdoc on Krakatoa . . . AwesomeSh!t! |
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Location: big island | think that's scary??? i just discovered someone has posted government video footage of this same eruption in full color. the video is in four parts but check out this clip in chapter 3 especially at 5:17 and on. |
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Location: Jet City | I don't know why, but I just watched all 10 minutes of that. I need a life.
Between Volcanos and the Curse Of Lono, you guys are screwed.
The price you pay for paradise I spose. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Nice Job Randy!
I see that and wonder what it would have been like to see in Person!! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Randy, Great job my friend! I think you have found a great calling here...I will be interested to see where it leads you! Now when you get a chance to use the Lexicon, I can only guess what you'll come up with. Thanks for the video. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Wonderful, Randy. Mother Nature's fury has no boundaries. How did you get your voice to sound so much like a female? |
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Location: big island | thank you, folks.
the ground has been a bit shaky around here lately and kilauea is much more active than usual. we may soon see the sort of eruption depicted in those films. i live about 40 miles from the current lava flows and feel relatively safe for the moment. |
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OT: kapoho's backyard volcano
