Photo by Flickr member neilabercrombie.
On Friday April 27, Governor Neil Abercrombie signed Senate Bill 2110, designating ʻUluʻulu as the state archive for moving images and establishing a special fund for its support, into law.
Thanks to all our partners and participants for your public testimony in support of this bill and for being champions of moving image preservation in Hawaiʻi!
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Senate Bill SB2110 relating to the preservation of Hawaiʻi’s Moving Images and designating ʻUluʻulu as the state archive for moving images has been recommended for passage by the committees on Education and on Economic Development and Technology. The committee on Ways and Means will have a public hearing on this measure on Thursday, February 23 at 9:00 AM in Conference Room 211 of the State Capitol.
You can follow the status of SB2110 and submit online testimony in support of the bill on the Hawaiʻi State Legislature website.
Two bills were introduced in the Hawaiʻi State Legislature’s current session to designate ʻUluʻulu as the state archive for moving images. Senate bill SB2110 and the House companion bill HB2754 have passed their first reading and have been referred to committee for review. These two Bills also establish a special fund and a tax check-off for ʻUluʻulu. Thanks to the Senate committees on Economic Development & Technology and Education and the House committees on Culture & the Arts and Finance for introducing these bills!
You can follow the Bills’ latest status on the Hawaiʻi State Legislature website.
Read about the efforts of the Hula Preservation Society “to document the great voices of hula before they go silent” in the current issue of Hana Hou! Magazine.
The Lyman Museum in Hilo, currently showcases Hawaiʻiʻs volcanoes from the 1880s to present. The exhibit includes historic film footage, a portion of which was digitized in ʻUluʻulu’s Pilot Project. In an email, archivist Miki Bulos comments, “The films have already generated a lot of interest in the public as well as the scientific community… If ʻUluʻulu hadn’t digitized these films they may have, in all likelihood, been lost for ever.”
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Construction at the new UH West Oahu campus is progressing very quickly and we’re on schedule to move into the Library in the Summer of 2012. Here are pictures of the ʻUluʻulu space taken during our site visit earlier this month.
Central Campus Construction. The Library tower can be seen in the center left.
ʻUluʻulu reading room, with screening area at the far end. This space will be open to students and researchers.
Four private study rooms where small groups can view collection materials.
Temperature and humidity-controlled vault to store archival videotapes and films.
Processing area where staff will catalog, inspect, clean and digitize collection items.
Loading and quarantine area for incoming collections.
Safety first!
We have been busy the last few months preparing to launch our public website and online digital collection. Part of this process included a slight name change to better reflect who we are as an organization.
Our new name is ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi. ʻUluʻulu is a Hawaiian word meaning collections, gathering or assembly. This is a fitting description for our archive and our mission to perpetuate and share the rich moving image heritage of Hawaiʻi through the preservation of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Native Hawaiians and the people of Hawaiʻi.
SAA Student Chapter from UH Manoa in the stacks
UH Manoa’s student chapter of the Society of American Archivists paid us a visit recently to tour our lab and learn about moving image archiving. We talked about our digitizing, cataloging and preservation efforts and how our classes and experiences as students in the Library and Information Science program at Manoa prepared us for this type of work.
One major learning experience we emphasized was the LIS Internship Program. It’s an excellent way for students to gain hands-on professional experience in the field. We are an approved LIS 690 Internship site and have intern positions available for Spring 2012. Interested students are encouraged to apply!
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We are pleased to announce the newest addition to our permanent collections, the Joe Fumio Konno Collection, which includes 16mm and 8mm motion picture film reels shot by Konno in the 1950s-1960s. Konno was one of the first television news cameramen in Hawaiʻi working for the Maui News, KULA Television (later KHVH and now KITV) and KHET (now PBS Hawaiʻi). Konno’s production credits include “The Pau Hana Years” (KHET 1966-79) and “China Visit” (PBS Hawaiʻi 1977).
Janel Quirante, Leslie Konno, Joe Konno and Mary Bitterman
Mr. Konno met with Archives’ staff recently and reminisced about his friendship with Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni. He recalled travelling to Washington DC in 1965 to cover President Johnson’s inauguration. Giugni met him at the train station and brought him to Senator Inouye’s house and offered him a chance to shoot exclusive photos of the the Senator and his new baby. Konno declined and explained to Giugni that he should also invite newsmen from AP and UPI as this would encourage good public relations with the national media. The next morning Konno woke to see a front page article and photograph of Senator Inouye sitting in a rocking chair with his baby — an image that reached a much wider audience than Konno’s exclusive could have.
Janel Quirante, Heather Giugni, Joe Konno, and Mary Bitterman
The Joe Fumio Konno Collection complements the Archive’s collection of another of Hawaiʻi’s television news pioneers, the Ted Shibuya Collection, and offers a unique glimpse into the early years of Hawaiʻi’s television history. The collection is currently closed to researchers as Archives staff works to catalog the materials and prepare them for public access.
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Senator Dan Inouye and Irene Hirano with Jacob Rosen, Janel Quirante, Heather Giugni and Robbie Omura
Senator Dan Inouye, Irene Hirano and members of the Senator’s staff visited the Archives on Aug 10 to tour our facility and to see the progress that we’ve made since starting operations in 2010. Sen. Inouye has always been a strong supporter of our moving image preservation efforts and was instrumental in the formation of the archives which honors his longtime aide Henry Ku’ualoha Giugni.
Irene Hirano watches a passenger disembark from a 1920's Interisland Airways flight. The footage is from a 16mm film from the Lyman Museum.
Staff gave demonstrations of our video cataloging, cleaning, and digitizing equipment and showed the Senator clips from our Pilot Project including footage of the Senator himself in the 1960s welcoming Jacqueline Kennedy as she arrives at the Honolulu airport.
Robbie Omura and Sen. Inouye
We were honored and thrilled by the visit from the Senator and his wife Irene!
Sen. Inouye and Irene Hirano with Heather Giugni
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Before... Original 16mm film reel from the KGMB TV collection
After... Image of Bill Paty from newly digitized film
Archival footage from the KGMB TV collection was recently used in PBS Hawaii’s Long Story Short. Bill Paty, who presided over the Hawaii Constitutional Convention in 1978, talked with Leslie Wilcox on the July 5 episode. The original 16mm film footage of the convention was preserved and digitized as part of the HKG Archives Pilot Project. Don’t worry if you missed the show, it will be re-broadcast on Sunday, July 10 at 4:00 pm.
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ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi 