Hawaii USA-1959: Surfing Waves At The Beach

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

Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Hawaii

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Surfing Waves At The Beach — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Hawaii, USA, in 1959, showing a sun-drenched beach scene with surfers riding waves. The grainy, slightly faded color palette captures the era's aesthetic, with a woman in a patterned dress briefly visible in the foreground. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the ocean where several surfers navigate breaking waves against a backdrop of distant hills. The film exhibits natural wear, including dust spots and a vertical scratch, enhancing its authentic archival quality. This nostalgic clip evokes mid-century American beach culture and leisure.

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: 120983172

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1873 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: 1,March
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: hawaii
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Hawaii, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1950s Hawaii beach recreation footage, especially surfing inserts for documentary, museum, education, or period leisure sequences.
Period detail: The faded color 8mm view, mid-century beach dress in the foreground, and metadata-supported 1959 date place the scene in a late-1950s Hawaii leisure context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding on surfers offshore while a beachgoer briefly crosses close to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include breaking surf, distant hills, small surfers in the water, pale beach or reef areas, blue-gray ocean, sky, and a patterned-dress figure near the lens.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, dust, and vertical scratching give the short 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief surfing cutaway, beach transition, period travel insert, or memory beat within a mid-century Hawaii sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows recreational surfing and shoreline watching as part of a sunlit coastal home-movie record, without enough visible detail to identify the exact beach.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and one figure appears close to camera, so likeness review may be needed while copyright and location/property questions remain separate.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Hawaii 8mm surfing, vintage home movie beach waves, mid-century surfers offshore, and faded color Hawaii beach footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Hawaii beach material, then other 1959 Hawaii coastal clips, then broader vintage surfing and mid-century recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Hawaii home-movie frame with surf, distant hills, and a beachgoer in a patterned dress partly obscuring the foreground. — A foreground beachgoer passes near the camera as surfers move through breaking waves offshore.

1959 Hawaii surf scene with several small surfers in the water, pale waves, and hills beyond the shoreline. — Small figures surf across a band of breaking waves with hills in the distance.

Faded 8mm Hawaii beach frame from 1959 showing scattered surfers or swimmers in rough surf below distant hills. — A wide home-movie view holds on scattered figures moving through the surf.

1959 Hawaii 8mm frame with choppy surf, distant hills, and small beachgoers or surfers spread across the water. — Small figures remain in the surf as the camera looks toward the shoreline and hills.

Visually Similar Clips