Pearl Harbor Hawaii-1965: Rusting Half-Submerged Warship Wreck Beside a Palm-Lined Shore

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationPearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 · Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1965 · Pearl Harbor · Reel a4168305 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

World War II remains
Pearl Harbor
remembrance
naval history
1960s travel
decay and ruin
Hawaii tourism

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · zoom
Setting: outdoor · Harbor shoreline with a sunken warship in shallow water, palm trees and waterfront naval buildings behind
Time and weather: day · unknown · clear to hazy
Lighting: Bright daylight, flattened by heavy colour fading
People: 0 · No people visible.
Vehicles: sunken warship
Landmarks: Pearl Harbor
Objects: sunken warship · deck plating · rusted hull section · waterfront buildings · palm trees · shade tree · harbor water
Colors: magenta red · pale cyan · pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

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The tilted, rusting wreck fills the frame with waterfront buildings behind.
The framing widens and palm trees appear above the shoreline.
More rippled water and reflections fill the foreground below the wreck.

Rusting Half-Submerged Warship Wreck Beside a Palm-Lined... — Clip Details

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1965 home movie footage of a sunken warship lying half-submerged close to the shore. The rusting, tilted wreck shows a sloping plated deck pierced with holes, with a rounded section breaking the waterline in front. Behind it stand palm trees, a broad shade tree and long multistory waterfront buildings under a pale sky. The single handheld shot holds on the wreck while the framing slowly widens to take in more water and sky.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000289

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1965 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: Pearl Harbor, 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: Serves requests for circa 1965 visitor footage of Pearl Harbor attack remains, suited to World War II, memorial history and Hawaii travel productions.
Period detail: The strongly faded magenta/cyan reversal colour and the reel's later footage of the 1962 Arizona Memorial may show the harbor as visitors saw it in the mid-1960s.
Home-movie behavior: A tourist pauses the camera on a rusting wreck in the water, recording the remains of the attack the way an ordinary visitor encountered them.
What appears in frame: A tilted, rusting warship lying half under water, its holed deck plating, a rounded corroded section in front, rippled water with reflections, palm trees and long waterfront buildings behind.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and passing dust specks sit over a heavy magenta and cyan colour fade typical of aged reversal home-movie stock.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or somber cutaway before footage of the Arizona Memorial or narration about 7 December 1941.
Historical context: The reel pairs this wreck with the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated 30 May 1962, showing a period when war damage remained part of the visitor view of the harbor.
Research note: No people, logos or signs are visible; the copyright in the film is separate from any military-site considerations, and the vessel's identity is not confirmed by the frames.
Research search match: Pearl Harbor sunken warship home movie, 1960s Hawaii shipwreck footage, World War II wreck vintage color film, faded reversal film Pearl Harbor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Arizona Memorial from the water, interior hall, turret ring and wall-of-names clips, then other 1960s Oahu footage, then World War II remembrance material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of a rusting sunken warship lying tilted in the water at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1965 — The holed deck plating of a sunken warship rises from the water at Pearl Harbor, circa 1965.
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Half-submerged warship wreck before waterfront naval buildings at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in faded circa 1965 colour — Waterfront buildings stand behind the half-submerged wreck in this faded colour home movie.
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Wider home-movie view of a sunken warship below palm trees on the Pearl Harbor shore, Hawaii, circa 1965 — As the framing widens, palm trees appear above the wreck on the shoreline.
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Sunken warship and its reflection in rippled harbor water at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1965 — Rippled water fills the foreground as the wreck sits low along the palm-lined shore.
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