Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA-1977: Koi Fish Swimming in Pond with Purple Tint

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

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Koi Fish Swimming in Pond with Purple Tint — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1977 showing a school of koi fish swimming in a pond with a distinct purple-blue tint, likely due to film stock or lighting. The fish, in various colors including orange, white, and black, move gracefully through the water, with some aquatic plants visible at the edges. The grainy, slightly blurry quality and dark borders are characteristic of Super 8 film, capturing a nostalgic, tranquil moment of wildlife in a garden setting.

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: 121120155

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: This 1977 Honolulu-area 8mm clip can support documentary or educational requests for 1970s Hawaii home-movie nature cutaways, garden pond details, or quiet wildlife inserts.
Period detail: The frames show physical 8mm home-movie characteristics and a purple-blue color cast, while the koi pond itself offers few date-specific visual clues beyond the supplied 1977 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational feel of a visitor or family camera lingering on koi swimming in a pond rather than staging a formal wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange and white koi, darker fish shapes beneath the surface, rippling pond water, small aquatic plant leaves, dark film borders, and a contact-sheet frame division.
Film character: The clip carries a grainy 8mm texture with soft focus, saturated purple-blue color shift, dark gate edges, and slight exposure variation that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a tranquil cutaway, memory beat, or transition between Hawaii travel scenes, garden footage, or archival reflections on leisure and place.
Historical context: The clip records a quiet recreational or garden-viewing moment in Honolulu-area home-movie footage without visible people, signage, landmarks, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any pond or garden property permissions should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1977 8mm koi pond Hawaii, Honolulu home movie fish swimming, vintage Super 8 garden pond, and purple-tinted archival koi footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with other 1977 Honolulu or Oahu home movies, and finally with broader 1970s garden, pond, wildlife, or tranquil travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Honolulu-area 8mm frame showing orange, white, and dark koi moving through purple-blue pond water with visible film borders and soft grain. — Koi swim beneath purple-tinted pond water.

1977 Honolulu-area 8mm frame with scattered koi in orange, white, and dark tones moving across a rippled pond surface tinted purple-blue. — Scattered koi move across the pond surface.

1977 Honolulu-area 8mm frame showing a loose cluster of koi swimming through purple-blue pond water with grain, softness, and the contact-sheet divider visible. — A loose group of koi gathers in the pond.

1977 Honolulu-area 8mm frame with koi distributed across a purple-blue pond surface, showing soft focus, grain, and dark film edges. — Koi spread out through the tinted pond water.

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