Crossing the Line: shipboard sequences on sailors being given the treatment on crossing the Equator for the first time, US warship. It is a kind of initiation ceremony in which disguised sailors smear the initiates faces and throw them in a pool. Brief shots of ships in Hawaiian harbour. Shots of Canadian sailors heading for shore leave. Sequence on Canadian sailors in Hawaii, mingling with American sailors, boarding Oahu Railway Train. TRAVELLING SHOT of tropical trees from Oahu Railway Train. LS, MLS of beach in Hawaii, not many people. Closer shot of men, women and children on beach.