Hawaii-1961: Day Out At Sea On The Haleakala Featuring Water Activities

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Day Out At Sea On The Haleakala Featuring Water Activities — Clip Details

HAWAII-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a day at sea, featuring a pink-hulled boat docked at a pier with people aboard. The footage transitions to a view of the ocean with surfers riding waves under a twilight sky. The clip includes a close-up of a sign reading 'ALEKAI V' and shows classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, handheld perspective. This archival footage offers authentic 1960s Hawaiian beach life and water activities, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127607179

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1961 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Hawaii, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: Supports requests for early 1960s Hawaii home-movie footage showing a boat outing and ocean recreation for documentary inserts, editorial context, or period travel sequences.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, docked tour boat, lettered vessel sign, and surfers offshore may show mid-century Hawaiian leisure travel and beach activity consistent with the 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, moving from a boat detail at the pier to distant surfers in the water rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Alekai V sign, dock structure, boat railings, dark foreground framing, open ocean, low waves, distant surfers, and a shoreline or headland.
Film character: The footage shows pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color shift, and handheld framing that give it a clearly physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel-memory beat, water-activity cutaway, Hawaii transition, or visual bridge from harbor tourism to surfing offshore.
Historical context: The scenes place recreational boating and surfing within an everyday tourist or family-film view of Hawaii, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific beach or event.
Research note: People and a vessel name are visible, so copyright, likeness, and trademark or vessel-identification issues should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s Hawaii 8mm home movie, Haleakala boat outing, Alekai V boat sign, vintage Hawaii surfing, and ocean recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 Hawaii coastal material, and then with broader mid-century boating or surfing home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark 1961 Hawaii 8mm frame showing a docked boat area with partial Alekai V lettering and silhouetted railings. — Partial Alekai V lettering seen from a dim dockside angle.

1961 Hawaii home-movie frame showing the Alekai V name on a docked vessel with railings and deck details above. — The Alekai V name appears on the side of the docked vessel.

1961 Hawaii ocean view with a distant surfer in the water, low waves, and a shoreline or headland at left. — A surfer rides low waves offshore under soft evening light.

1961 Hawaii 8mm frame with several distant surfers or swimmers beyond low breaking waves under a muted sky. — Distant figures wait in the surf beyond small breaking waves.

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