In 1940, on the dry westside of Kauaʻi, the Kekaha Sugar Company began a six-month mail-order film subscription with World Enterprises, an Oʻahu-based distributor—screening films for workers on their Sundays off from harvesting and processing sugarcane. The films, produced on the continent, ranged from John Wayne westerns and anti-union public service announcements to DuPont Chemical industrial shorts. Varied in style, the films shared a common theme: American power taming lands and peoples of the “frontier” through extraction, an encroachment justified by declared ideals of progress. These narratives attempted to codify American absorption as inevitable—meanwhile Asian immigrant laborers were actively exploring socialist futures that incorporated Kānaka Maoli sovereignty and imagined an independent, multiracial nation. WORLD ENTERPRISES is a collage of radical possibilities sourced entirely from the original 1940 film program. —Anthony Banua-Simon