Oahu Hawaii USA-1959: Polo Match On Grass Field With Mountains

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

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Polo Match On Grass Field With Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Oahu, Hawaii, USA, in 1959, showing a polo match on a lush green field. Riders in white shirts and dark pants compete on horseback under a cloudy sky, with tropical palm trees and distant mountains forming a scenic backdrop. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a natural, unedited feel, capturing a moment of leisure and sport in mid-century Hawaii. The shot is framed by the camera's viewfinder, adding to its authentic, personal archive quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121072071

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: Oahu, 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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Hawaii leisure, equestrian sport, and outdoor recreation requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1950s polo match, with riders in light shirts on a broad grass field and a tropical mountain backdrop consistent with the supplied Oahu, 1959 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distant spectator position, preserving an unstaged home-movie view of riders moving across the field rather than a formal sports broadcast angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include mounted riders, a green polo field, palm trees, distant mountains, cloudy sky, a white arched structure, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edges that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, regional cutaway, sport transition, or memory beat for mid-century Hawaii recreation and horseback activity.
Historical context: The scene documents organized outdoor leisure on Oahu, showing polo players at distance within a landscaped field bordered by palms and mountains.
Research note: People are visible but not individually identifiable at this distance, so likeness review may still apply separately from copyright or location permissions.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Oahu 8mm polo match, Hawaii horseback sport home movie, mid-century equestrian field footage, and vintage riders on grass.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Oahu 1959 home movies, then broader Hawaii leisure, equestrian sport, or mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Oahu home-movie frame showing mounted polo players crossing a green field beneath cloudy mountains. — Polo players ride across a broad grass field with palms and mountains in the background.

Oahu, Hawaii, 1959 frame of polo riders spaced across a grass field, filmed from a distant spectator viewpoint. — Riders move across the polo field as the mountain backdrop fills the horizon.

Soft 8mm frame from Oahu in 1959 showing several polo riders grouped on the field with palms and mountains beyond. — A group of mounted players gathers on the field during the polo match.

1959 Oahu home-movie frame showing riders in play near a white arched structure with palms and mountains in back. — Polo players ride across the field with a white arched structure visible beyond the palms.

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