Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA-1977: Man Holding Wire Talks To A Parrot In A Cage

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

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Man Holding Wire Talks To A Parrot In A Cage — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA, in 1977. A man with curly hair, wearing a blue tank top and light-colored pants, stands in a wooded outdoor setting, holding a thin wire or stick and interacting with a parrot inside a wire cage. The parrot, with green and blue feathers, is visible through the cage bars. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color grading, noticeable film grain, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of human-animal interaction in a tropical environment.

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: 121118640

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: 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: This clip supports 1970s archival requests for visitor-style Honolulu home-movie footage showing a casual human-animal interaction with a caged parrot.
Period detail: The man’s blue tank top, light trousers, handheld 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1977 Honolulu setting place the scene within a casual late-1970s travel or family-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged moment as the man handles a thin wire or stick and appears to speak or gesture toward the parrot while the camera observes at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curly-haired man in a blue tank top, a wooded outdoor background, a thin wire or stick, a wire cage, and a green-and-blue parrot seen through cage bars.
Film character: The footage has dense Super 8 grain, soft focus, high-contrast shadows, saturated blues and greens, and slight handheld instability that give it a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel-memory beat, animal cutaway, or transition within sequences about Hawaii tourism, informal zoo visits, pets, or 1970s leisure footage.
Historical context: The scene reflects a candid visitor or family-film perspective on animal display and informal interaction in a tropical outdoor environment without identifying a specific facility or landmark.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright status, while no logos, minors, private interiors, or audible music are indicated in the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1977 Honolulu 8mm home movie parrot cage, 1970s Hawaii visitor footage with bird, and Super 8 man talking to caged parrot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1977 Honolulu or Oahu footage, and then with broader 1970s home-movie scenes of animal encounters or tropical travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported 1977 Honolulu home-movie footage, a curly-haired man in a blue tank top stands in a shaded wooded area holding a thin wire or stick. — Man holding a thin wire outdoors.

The man in the blue tank top appears to look down toward the wire or stick in his hands in a shaded outdoor Honolulu setting supported by the clip metadata. — Man looking down while handling the wire.

A curly-haired adult man faces the camera in a casual 1977 Honolulu home-movie frame, holding a thin wire or stick with trees and dark foliage behind him. — Man facing the camera with the wire.

A green-and-blue parrot is seen through the bars of a wire cage in the metadata-supported Honolulu home-movie clip, with the cage filling most of the frame. — Parrot behind wire cage bars.

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