Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA-1977: Beautiful Hyacinth Macaw Bird Transferring Through Chain-Link Enclosure

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

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Beautiful Hyacinth Macaw Bird Transferring Through... — Clip Details

Vintage 1977 home movie footage of a magnificent hyacinth macaw in a chain-link enclosure, filmed through the fence with a distinct purple color cast typical of aged 8mm film. The large blue parrot with a bright red beak moves slowly across the concrete floor, its feathers appearing dark under the dim lighting. The grainy, slightly blurry image captures the nostalgic quality of a personal family recording, with the chain-link pattern creating a visual barrier between viewer and subject. This authentic archival clip showcases the bird's natural movements in a contained environment, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife from the late 1970s.

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: 121118526

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

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: 1977 Honolulu home-movie footage helps answer archive requests for contained exotic bird or zoo-like animal cutaways with visible 8mm texture for documentary, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to chain-link fencing, a concrete enclosure floor, and aged 8mm color rendering, with the 1977 Honolulu setting supported by clip metadata rather than landmarks in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, filmed close through a fence as the large blue macaw moves slowly inside the enclosure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hyacinth macaw, chain-link fence, concrete floor, low enclosure wall, dim background fencing, dark shadowed edges, and a small area of red beak color.
Film character: The footage has a dense 8mm home-movie look with purple-blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing through the fence.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief animal insert, enclosure cutaway, zoo-visit memory beat, or transition within 1970s Hawaii travel or wildlife material.
Historical context: The frames suggest a visitor encounter with a captive large parrot, reflecting home-movie attention to animals and attractions without showing people or identifiable signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should review animal-use context, enclosure location identification, and separate copyright, property, and exhibition permissions as needed.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1970s 8mm Honolulu macaw footage, hyacinth macaw behind chain-link fence, captive blue parrot home movie, and Hawaii zoo-style bird enclosure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1977 Honolulu or Oahu travel footage, and then with broader archival animal, zoo, or captive-bird sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

A blue hyacinth macaw appears behind chain-link fencing in a concrete enclosure, from 1977 Honolulu home-movie footage according to clip metadata. — Macaw behind chain-link fencing.

The large blue macaw moves across the concrete floor behind a chain-link barrier, with the bird partly cropped by the handheld 8mm framing. — Macaw moving through enclosure.

A close view through chain-link fencing shows the macaw's blue body and red beak area filling much of the lower frame in the concrete enclosure. — Close view through the fence.

The blue macaw bends low near the concrete floor behind the chain-link fence, with soft focus and a strong purple-blue archival film cast. — Macaw bending near the floor.

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