Honolulu Oahu Hawaii USA-1977: Parrot At The Zoo

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

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Parrot At The Zoo — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1977 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA, showing a colorful parrot in a zoo enclosure. The clip features a large green parrot with a red forehead and white facial markings, perched on a branch inside a glass-enclosed habitat. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, capturing the bird's movements and natural behavior. The background reveals foliage and structural elements of the zoo exhibit, with a warm, nostalgic quality characteristic of 1970s home movies.

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: 121120618

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: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage from Honolulu, Oahu helps answer requests for zoo animal cutaways, tropical travel memories, or archival inserts showing a colorful parrot in captivity.
Period detail: The visible Super 8 color shift, soft focus, handheld framing, and glass-enclosure view support a 1970s home-movie reading, while the specific Honolulu zoo setting comes from supplied clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the visitor-shot perspective of someone filming through glass at close range, following the parrot's small movements without staged setup or controlled wildlife cinematography.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green parrot with a red forehead, pale facial markings, a dark beak, branch or perch material, enclosure glass, foliage, exhibit structure, and the black borders of a film contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, blue-magenta color drift, soft exposure, slight blur, and handheld instability that read as authentic physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief animal cutaway, zoo-memory insert, travel-transition beat, or atmospheric detail within a 1970s Hawaii or family-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects casual zoo visitation and amateur travel filming in the 1970s, showing an enclosed exotic bird habitat without making broader claims about the institution or species care.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, zoo-property context, and exact species identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1977 Honolulu zoo parrot 8mm footage, 1970s Hawaii home movie zoo bird, vintage Super 8 parrot enclosure, and archival zoo animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1977 Honolulu or Oahu travel footage, then broader 1970s zoo, tropical bird, and home-movie animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A soft 1977 8mm frame from Honolulu, Oahu shows a green parrot with a red forehead partly hidden by enclosure glare and film softness. — Parrot close-up through zoo enclosure glass.

Parrot visible beside enclosure foliage.

The handheld 8mm camera catches a blurred close view of the parrot near the frame edge, with green body feathers, red forehead color, and enclosure material visible. — Blurred close-up of the parrot at the glass.

A soft final frame shows the parrot's green body and leg near a perch or enclosure base, with glass reflections and exhibit surfaces visible in the 1977 Honolulu zoo footage. — Parrot body and perch area in the enclosure.

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