Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA-1977: Bullhead Shark Swimming Slowly Along The Bottom

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationHonolulu Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Bullhead Shark Swimming Slowly Along The Bottom — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA in 1977 captures a bullhead shark swimming slowly along the rocky ocean floor. The grainy, blue-tinted film shows the shark gliding past pebbles and coral in an aquarium setting, with other fish visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic, archival quality. This authentic underwater scene offers a rare glimpse of marine life from the late 1970s, perfect for historical or nostalgic content.

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: 121116194

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 1245 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: kodak show,blow hole,polynesian show,cementery,sunset beach,arizona memorial,sept 5-12
Reel-level year note: 1977
Reel-level location note: honolulu hawaii
Date: 1977 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: Honolulu 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1977 Honolulu, Oahu 8mm clip supports archive requests for late-1970s Hawaii marine-life or aquarium cutaways in documentary, museum, education, and period-memory productions.
Period detail: The visible clues are primarily the blue-tinted 8mm film stock, soft focus, and aquarium-like underwater setting rather than identifiable Honolulu landmarks or dated public events.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing a shark moving through a tank or enclosed underwater display without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bullhead shark near the rocky bottom, pebbles or coral rubble, blue aquarium water, small background fish, tank edges or framing shadows, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The clip carries a physical 8mm texture with blue color cast, soft exposure, gate shadows, grain, and slight motion blur that mark it as scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief marine-life insert, aquarium cutaway, Hawaii travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about ocean animals or 1970s home movies.
Historical context: The scene reflects a tourist or family-film encounter with displayed marine life in Hawaii, with no visible people, signage, or institutional identifiers in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still distinguish footage copyright from any separate location, aquarium, or animal-display permissions that may apply.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1977 Honolulu 8mm shark footage, 1970s Hawaii aquarium film, vintage home movie bullhead shark, and Super 8 marine life cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with 1977 Honolulu or Oahu travel material, and then with broader 1970s aquarium, ocean, fish, or shark footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Honolulu, Oahu 8mm frame showing a bullhead shark near pebbles or coral rubble in blue aquarium water, with dark film borders and soft grain. — Bullhead shark near the rocky tank bottom.

1977 Honolulu, Oahu 8mm frame with the shark moving slowly past a pale rectangular rock or tank feature while small fish appear in the blue background. — Shark moving past a tank feature.

1977 Honolulu, Oahu 8mm frame showing the shark's body and tail crossing above the rocky aquarium bottom, with background fish and blue film cast. — Shark tail over the rocky bottom.

1977 Honolulu, Oahu 8mm frame of a bullhead shark gliding across blue aquarium water above pebbles or coral rubble, with other fish faintly visible behind it. — Bullhead shark gliding across the tank.

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