Oahu Hawaii USA-1959: A Warship Passing By

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

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A Warship Passing By — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Oahu, Hawaii, 1959, showing a U.S. Navy warship sailing on the open ocean. The grainy, slightly blurry film captures the ship's profile in motion, with the hull number 545 clearly visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, muted color palette, and film grain, viewed through a dark frame border. The ship's superstructure, radar mast, and gun turrets are visible against a cloudy sky, conveying a sense of mid-century naval power and maritime activity.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121073930

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 Oahu or U.S. Navy archive requests needing a brief home-movie view of a warship passing offshore.
Period detail: The hull number 545, gun mounts, radar mast, muted color stock, and 8mm framing point to mid-century naval imagery, with 1959 Oahu supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, filmed from a moving or obstructed vantage as the ship passes through a dark window or frame edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ocean water, cloudy sky, a gray naval vessel, hull number 545, gun turrets, radar mast, railings, and dark frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, handheld drift, grain, muted color, and exposure variation give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, maritime transition, military cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s Hawaii sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places a U.S. Navy vessel in open water near Oahu, suggesting ordinary mid-century maritime presence without identifying a specific mission.
Research note: Human review should verify the vessel identity and any likeness or military insignia concerns; copyright, logo, and publicity rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches may include 1959 Oahu Navy warship 8mm footage, hull number 545 ship passing, Hawaii military home movie, and vintage U.S. Navy ocean scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby reel material, then other 1959 Oahu clips, and then broader mid-century Navy, ocean travel, or Hawaii harbor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 1959 Oahu home-movie frame of a gray U.S. Navy warship passing offshore, partly blurred and bordered by dark vertical edges. — A warship passes on the water, partially blurred by camera movement and dark framing.

Gray U.S. Navy warship near Oahu with hull number 545 visible, showing gun mounts and deck railings against a cloudy sky. — The vessel's bow and hull number 545 are visible as it moves across open water.

1959 Oahu home-movie view of a gray naval vessel, with hull number 545, forward gun mounts, railings, and ocean water visible. — A side view shows hull number 545 and forward gun mounts on the passing naval vessel.

Gray naval vessel near Oahu with radar mast, superstructure, gun mounts, and railings visible above the ocean in grainy 8mm footage. — The ship's mast, superstructure, and gun mounts pass through the frame above blue water.

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