Kodak Hula Show showed isles to the world

By Bob Sigall

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 23, 2012

~~<p>Hawaii tourists in the mid-1930s had a problem. They went to luau at night and took pictures of the singers and dancers, but the low light and poor cameras caused the pictures to come out too dark to see.</p>
<p>Fritz Herman, then-vice president and manager of Kodak Hawaii, saw the poor pictures daily. Ten years after the Royal Hawaiian Hotel opened in Waikiki, and in the midst of the Great Depression, he and Louise Akeo Silva started a daytime hula show on the lawn behind the beach at San Souci. Herman's purpose was to sell film.</p>
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Hawaii tourists in the mid-1930s had a problem. They went to luau at night and took pictures of the singers and dancers, but the low light and poor cameras caused the pictures to come out too dark to see.

Fritz Herman, then-vice president and manager of Kodak Hawaii, saw the poor pictures daily. Ten years after the Royal Hawaiian Hotel opened in Waikiki, and in the midst of the Great Depression, he and Louise Akeo Silva started a daytime hula show on the lawn behind the beach at San Souci. Herman's purpose was to sell film. Login for more...