South Seas Cinema Website - General Tiki

K khan_tiki_mon Member Syracuse, NY Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 284	K khan_tiki_mon Posted posted on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:11 PM I love the South Seas Cinema website. What an incredible amount of information there. I have a very modest collection of South Seas Cinema. I have films (DVD and VHS), posters, lobby cards, and publicity stills. Here’s a sample: Original movie poster from “On The Isle of Samoa” framed and displayed in my Tiki lounge. 1950 film starring Jon Hall. Original lobby card for “Aloma of the South Seas” unframed. Original Mexican lobby card for “Kon Tiki” unframed. Original lobby card for “Gidget”. Framed and on display in my Tiki lounge. I know you don’t have this movie listed on the site and I’m not saying it should be – no part of it takes place in the South Seas. You have “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” listed no argument there. I find the first “Gidget” film utterly fascinating for the cultural impact that it had. Surfing is Hawaiian and Duke Kahanamoku is unquestionably the father of modern surfing. But, when the movie “Gidget” was released there were about 5,000 people surfing in California. After the movie, that included Cliff Robertson’s portrayal of the ‘Kahuna’, there were 2 to 3 million surfers in California in just three years’ time. More than one source credits “Gidget” with jump starting the popularity of surfing in the U.S. and giving birth to the ‘surf’ culture there. I just got a DVD copy of the movie “Hurricane”. This is the 1979 Dino DeLaurentiis version. I was in college when the film was released and saw it opening weekend at the theater with a date. I believe the movie was a critical and commercial failure but I have fond memories of that evening so many years ago. Probably the best thing to come from the movie was the hotels that Dino DeLaurentiis built to house the cast and crew during the filming. It’s interesting hearing his granddaughter Giada, on her cooking show, talk about the times she spent as a little girl at those hotels. I am going to send an e-mail about becoming a member of the South Seas Cinema website. I have my own website where I have been cataloging my collections. I haven’t gotten around to any of the film stuff yet but I have only been working on the site for six years now (ha ha). If you are interested you can check out the site here: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzep0565/index.html

I love the South Seas Cinema website. What an incredible amount of information there. I have a very modest collection of South Seas Cinema. I have films (DVD and VHS), posters, lobby cards, and publicity stills. Here’s a sample:

Original movie poster from “On The Isle of Samoa” framed and displayed in my Tiki lounge. 1950 film starring Jon Hall.

Original lobby card for “Aloma of the South Seas” unframed.

Original Mexican lobby card for “Kon Tiki” unframed.

Original lobby card for “Gidget”. Framed and on display in my Tiki lounge. I know you don’t have this movie listed on the site and I’m not saying it should be – no part of it takes place in the South Seas. You have “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” listed no argument there. I find the first “Gidget” film utterly fascinating for the cultural impact that it had. Surfing is Hawaiian and Duke Kahanamoku is unquestionably the father of modern surfing. But, when the movie “Gidget” was released there were about 5,000 people surfing in California. After the movie, that included Cliff Robertson’s portrayal of the ‘Kahuna’, there were 2 to 3 million surfers in California in just three years’ time. More than one source credits “Gidget” with jump starting the popularity of surfing in the U.S. and giving birth to the ‘surf’ culture there.

I just got a DVD copy of the movie “Hurricane”. This is the 1979 Dino DeLaurentiis version. I was in college when the film was released and saw it opening weekend at the theater with a date. I believe the movie was a critical and commercial failure but I have fond memories of that evening so many years ago. Probably the best thing to come from the movie was the hotels that Dino DeLaurentiis built to house the cast and crew during the filming. It’s interesting hearing his granddaughter Giada, on her cooking show, talk about the times she spent as a little girl at those hotels.
I am going to send an e-mail about becoming a member of the South Seas Cinema website. I have my own website where I have been cataloging my collections. I haven’t gotten around to any of the film stuff yet but I have only been working on the site for six years now (ha ha). If you are interested you can check out the site here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzep0565/index.html

Post #672714 by khan_tiki_mon on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:11 PM