Hawaii USA-1981: Blue Ferry in Tropical Waters

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Year1981
Decade1980s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Blue Ferry in Tropical Waters — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Hawaii USA in 1981 showing a blue and white passenger ferry navigating calm waters. The boat moves across the frame, with lush green tropical vegetation and distant hills visible along the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of 1980s amateur recordings. A larger white ferry is visible in the background, suggesting a busy waterway. The scene captures a nostalgic moment of island transportation and leisure, with passengers visible on the deck of the smaller vessel.

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: 122884540

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1981 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Hawaii, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1981 Hawaii home-movie footage suited to requests for island ferry travel, waterfront transportation, and tropical shoreline cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1980s visitor-shot ferry activity, with a small blue passenger boat, a larger white ferry, and soft 8mm color typical of the period.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint reads as a casual shoreline or boat-side observation of everyday ferry movement rather than a staged travel sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue passenger boat, distant white ferry, dark water, green shoreline trees, low hills, passengers, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat for island transport in an early 1980s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places passenger boats within a tropical Hawaiian waterway, suggesting leisure or local transit without confirming a specific route or landmark.
Research note: People are visible at small scale, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, vessel identity, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1981 Hawaii 8mm ferry footage, blue passenger boat tropical shoreline, vintage home movie island transportation, and Hawaiian waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1981 Hawaii waterfront scenes, then broader vintage ferry, boating, and tropical travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 Hawaii 8mm frame showing a blue passenger boat moving across tropical water near a tree-lined shore. — A blue passenger boat travels across the water with the shoreline behind it.

1981 Hawaii home-movie frame with a distant white ferry by the shore and a blue boat partly visible at right. — A white ferry sits near the shoreline while the blue boat passes at the edge of frame.

1981 Hawaii 8mm frame showing a white ferry near shore with part of a blue passenger boat in the foreground. — The larger white ferry remains near shore as the smaller blue boat moves through the frame.

1981 Hawaii home-movie frame with a blue passenger boat passing a pale waterfront structure and distant green hills. — The blue passenger boat passes close to a pale waterfront structure with hills beyond.

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