Hawaii-1970: Terraced Resort Hotel Above a Palm-Lined White-Sand Beach

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Year1970
Decade1970s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1970 · Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1970 · Hawaii & Pearl Harbor · Reel d22656b4 contains 11 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

tourism
beach holiday
resort architecture
leisure
tropical travel
Hawaiian vacation
modern hotel design

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld · eye level, long lens from across the water
Setting: outdoor · tropical bay with a white-sand beach, palms and a terraced resort hotel on the slope above
Time and weather: daytime · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright natural daylight
People: 20 · Small distant figures of bathers and sunbathers on the sand and at the water's edge, too far away to show faces or clothing detail.
Objects: beach umbrellas · hotel balconies · concrete columns · palm trees · foreground branches
Colors: violet blue · pink sand · dark green · grey mauve
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Blue bay and an empty stretch of white sand framed by foreground branches, with hotel tiers at the top of frame.
The pan right brings the first blue umbrellas and standing bathers into view.
Palms line the back of the beach and rows of hotel balconies fill the upper frame.
The busiest part of the beach passes below the full terraced facade.

Terraced Resort Hotel Above a Palm-Lined White-Sand Beach — Clip Details

Hawaii, circa 1970 home movie footage of a modern resort hotel standing over a white-sand beach. The shot opens on blue water and pale sand framed by foreground branches, with the lower balcony tiers of the building above a wooded slope. The camera pans right along the shore, bringing palms, blue beach umbrellas and small distant figures of bathers into view. It is filmed handheld from across the bay on a long lens, in colour stock that has shifted toward magenta.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shot
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000268

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1970 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for circa 1970 Hawaiian resort tourism, giving a clear amateur view of a modern beach hotel over its sand for documentary or education use.
Period detail: The long concrete hotel with stacked open balcony tiers reflects 1960s resort design, and the faded reversal colour suits small-gauge film of about 1970.
Home-movie behavior: A holidaymaker pans slowly from across the bay to take in the hotel and its beach, the way a visitor records where the trip was spent.
What appears in frame: Blue bay water, a band of white sand, blue beach umbrellas, tiny bathers at the waterline, a row of palms, a dark wooded slope and tiers of hotel balconies above.
Film character: Visible grain, soft distant focus, a gentle handheld sway and a magenta-violet colour shift give the shot the texture of aged small-gauge reversal film.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot for a resort or holiday sequence, or as a short memory beat between closer beach and golf scenes.
Historical context: The shot shows visitors gathered under umbrellas on a hotel beach, a picture of organised resort leisure in Hawaii in the years after the first lava-coast resorts opened in the mid-1960s.
Research note: The bathers are too distant to be identified and the hotel, a private property, carries no visible name or sign; copyright in the film is separate from any likeness or property rights.
Research search match: Vintage Hawaii resort hotel, 1970s beach holiday home movie, terraced hotel above beach, palm-lined white-sand bay, amateur film of Hawaiian tourism.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the crescent white-sand beach and woman golfer clips from the same reel, then with other circa 1970 Hawaii holiday footage, then with vintage beach resort scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Quiet end of a white-sand beach in Hawaii, circa 1970, framed by branches with hotel balcony tiers above a wooded slope. — The shot opens on the quiet end of the beach, with the hotel's lower tiers above the trees.
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Bathers and blue umbrellas on a Hawaiian beach, circa 1970, as the camera pans toward palms beneath a resort hotel. — The pan right reaches the first umbrellas and bathers on the sand.
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Tiers of recessed balconies on a modern resort hotel above palms and a busy white-sand beach in Hawaii, circa 1970. — Palms line the back of the beach as the hotel's balcony tiers fill the upper frame.
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Full terraced facade of a Hawaiian beach resort hotel, circa 1970, over palms, umbrellas and sunbathers on the shore. — The end of the pan: the terraced hotel standing over the busiest stretch of its beach.
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