Photographer: Crabb, Roy F., d. 1966 / Kodak Hawaii
The Kodak Hula Show
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In 1937, Fritz Herman founded the Kodak Hula Show, a performance venue that entertained tourists for 65 years. Herman, a vice-president and manager of Kodak Hawaii, had the idea to promote picture taking by providing a hula show during daylight hours (hula entertainment during hotel luau tended to be at night). The first show featured five dancers, four musicians and an audience of 100. The popular shows later expanded to 20 female and six male performers, 15 musicians, two chanters and audiences of 3,000 each week. For many tourists, their only exposure to Hawaiian dance was the Kodak Hula Show. Though the show was creatted for the purpose of tourism. Later it became one of several shows to help maintain and spread trditional hula dance and culture. Today the kodak hula show is discontinued.
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