Men pick up sacks of sugar from the pallet at one end of the short pier, move them to the water end, and drop them. The pier floats slightly in the water, bobbing slightly.
Robert Bonine's series of pictures shot in Hawaii are among the last of the straight actualities. Films had grown long and complicated. The previous year, some Australians had put out what we'd call a feature film these days, four or more reels of a thousand feet of film. That wasn't for Bonine! Movies were about recording reality. He retired.