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Schley Ride to Hawaii (1952)

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Schley Ride to Hawaii (1952) screen title.

Documentary (1952)

Production:
Picturelogue Inc. of Waukesha Wisconsin (Production)
Norman E.Schley (Photography)

Also from this series:
Schley Ride to series

“Schley Ride to Hawaii 1952” is a color, silent travelogue film by Norman E. Schley. It originally would have screened in front of a live audience with Schley narrating, or may have had an accompanying soundtrack (now lost). Norman Schley was a skilled filmmaker from Wisconsin who made a series of travel films under the moniker "Schley Ride" or “Picturelogues” through his company Picturelogue Inc. This particular film, follows Schley as he travels around Hawaii from Waikiki Beach to a rural fishing community. This film is offers insight into the development of Hawaii’s tourism sector in the years leading up to becoming the 50th state in 1959.
The film presents two versions:
Part 1: Honolulu, Maui & Oahau, Cattle Ranch, Sugar Cane.
Part 2: Hana-Maui Resort Volcanoes National Park in a long version.

Part 1

Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper

Registration N13437, c/n 11701/23. Delivered new to USAAF in 1941 or 1942, register unknown. Bought post WWII by Hawaiian Airlines as N13437. Operated until December 1954. History unknown after...
Also seen in Part 2 below.

Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.

Douglas DC-6

Or DC-6B since United Air Lines operated both models in 1952.

Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines.
Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.

View from the cockpit.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.


Part 2

Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper

N13437, already mentionned in Part 1 above.

Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.
Reg.N13437 Douglas C-53D-DO Skytrooper of Hawaiian Airlines.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Marketed as The Aloha Airlines in Hawaii.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.

View from the cockpit already mentionned in Part 1.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.

Also seen in Part 1.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain of Aloha Airlines.

Sikorsky S-51

Sikorsky S-51.
Sikorsky S-51.
Sikorsky S-51.
Sikorsky S-51.

Douglas DC-6

At Honolulu International Airport. See discussion tab

Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines.
Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

In the far background at Honolulu International Airport. See discussion tab

Douglas C-47 Skytrain .

Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser

At Honolulu International Airport. See discussion tab
Registration N31226, c/n 15966. Delivered new to United Air Lines in October 1949, named Mainliner Kauai fleet number 7226. Sold to B.O.A.C in October 1954. After conversion by Lockheed Air Service, the aircraft was delivered to B.O.A.C on May 1955, registered G-ANTY and named RMA Coriolanus. Sold to TALOA-Transocean Air Lines in July 1959, registered N105Q and later N413Q but never entered service. It was sold on January 1960 and eventually placed in storage at Mojave, California, and scrapped in the mid-1960s.

Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.
Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.
Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.
Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.
Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.
Reg.N31226 Boeing 377-10-34 Stratocruiser Mainliner Kauai of United Air Lines.

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