Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA-1962: Severe Flood with Submerged Structures

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationHonolulu, Hawaii, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Hawaii

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Severe Flood with Submerged Structures — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1962, capturing a severe flood event. The grainy black-and-white film shows submerged structures and debris in turbulent water, with palm trees and buildings visible in the background. The scene conveys the destructive impact of a natural disaster, with water levels rising over roads and foundations. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—film grain, slight motion blur, and analog imperfections—offering authentic archival material for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about past weather events in Hawaii.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120764470

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to archival requests for flood damage, severe weather aftermath, or Hawaii disaster-context inserts.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frames may show mid-century waterfront structures, palm trees, and low buildings in Honolulu, with no readable signs or date markers visible in the image itself.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a witness filming turbulent floodwater and damaged or submerged structures from a nearby vantage point rather than a controlled news setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rough floodwater, partially submerged structures, low buildings, palm trees, shoreline debris, reflected water surfaces, and soft horizon detail.
Film character: The footage carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, motion blur, frame jitter, and visible analog wear.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief disaster aftermath insert, location-setting cutaway, transition into weather-impact coverage, or memory beat within a Hawaii archival sequence.
Historical context: The frames visually document flood conditions around built waterfront areas in Honolulu without showing identifiable people, readable signage, or a confirmed cause beyond the supplied bad-weather flood description.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status separately from any property or location identification concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Hawaii flood footage, Honolulu bad weather home movie, Pearl Harbor flood aftermath, 8mm natural disaster water damage, and vintage waterfront flooding.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1962 Honolulu or Pearl Harbor material, and then with broader 1960s flood, storm, or Hawaii weather aftermath sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Honolulu-area 8mm frame showing rough floodwater around partially submerged waterfront structures, with palm trees and low buildings beyond. — Flooded waterfront structures with palm trees beyond.

1962 Honolulu-area 8mm frame with high, dark floodwater against damaged or submerged shoreline structures, backed by low buildings and palms. — High water against shoreline structures.

Blurred 8mm frame from the 1962 Honolulu flood footage, dominated by pale turbulent water with a dark foreground edge at left. — Close, blurred view of turbulent floodwater.

1962 Honolulu-area flood footage frame showing churning water and a dark vertical edge or obstruction, with little background detail visible. — Churning floodwater near a dark foreground edge.

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