Honolulu Hawaii-1960: Lei-Wearing Hula Dancers Perform Beneath a Matson Lines Sign

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationHonolulu, Hawaii, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Boat Day welcome
hula performance
steamship travel
Hawaii tourism
aloha greeting
mid-century travel
Hawaiian culture

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · tilt
Setting: outdoor · Harbour pier with a tall pale pier-shed wall and a company sign board serving as a backdrop for a hula performance
Time and weather: day
Lighting: Dim, flat light with a strong blue-green colour cast
People: 12 · A troupe of hula performers wearing leis, flower crowns and skirts, with a few standing figures behind them and blurred onlookers at the lower edge; faces are not distinguishable.
Objects: Matson Lines sign board · M house flag emblem · leis · flower crowns · hula skirts · painted wall lettering · pier shed wall · pipes on wall
Readable signs: Matson Lines · M · NO SMOK
Colors: teal · pale blue · mustard yellow · red · dark green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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Hula dancers perform with arms extended in front of the Matson Lines sign.
The handheld view drifts slightly as the troupe keeps dancing beside the starred M emblem.
The framing tilts lower, showing more of the front row and blurred onlookers along the bottom edge.

Lei-Wearing Hula Dancers Perform Beneath a Matson Lines Sign — Clip Details

Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1960 home movie footage of a troupe of hula dancers in leis, flower crowns and skirts performing in front of a Matson Lines sign bearing the company's starred M house flag. The gold sign board stands against the tall pale wall of a pier shed, with partly hidden painted lettering reading 'NO SMOK' to its left. The single 8mm shot is a wide, slightly drifting handheld view taken from a distance, dim and grainy with a strong blue-green cast.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001005

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1960 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: Honolulu, 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 1960 Hawaii steamship-era tourism, especially a Matson Lines hula greeting for documentaries on travel, shipping or Hawaiian cultural performance.
Period detail: The Matson Lines script sign with its starred M house flag and the hula welcome at a pier shed point to Matson's postwar passenger service, and the costumes may show period tourist-show styling.
Home-movie behavior: Shot by a visitor from the edge of the pier crowd, it records the welcome as an arriving or departing traveller would have seen it rather than as a staged promotional film.
What appears in frame: A group of hula dancers in leis and flower crowns, a gold Matson Lines sign, the red-ringed M emblem, a tall pale pier-shed wall, partly hidden 'NO SMOK' lettering and blurred onlookers at the bottom edge.
Film character: Dim exposure, heavy grain and a strong blue-green colour shift give the 8mm projection capture a soft, aged travel-film texture, with gentle handheld drift.
Edit role: Works as a short cutaway or memory beat in a Boat Day or Hawaii arrival sequence, placed next to liner or harbour shots to establish the greeting.
Historical context: Hula and music greetings for Matson passengers were a familiar part of Honolulu's Boat Day ritual during the liner era, which ended when Matson left passenger service in 1970.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness rights of the performers, who are not identifiable at this distance, and from the Matson Lines name and emblem, which are trademarks.
Research search match: Matson Lines hula dancers, Honolulu Boat Day greeting, 8mm Hawaii home movie circa 1960, steamship pier hula welcome, vintage Hawaii tourism film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the Ocean liner bow at pier clip from this reel, then the HILO sign clip, then other circa 1960 Honolulu Harbor or Waikiki footage and wider steamship-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Hula dancers in leis perform before a Matson Lines sign at a Honolulu Harbor pier shed, circa 1960, on 8mm film — Hula dancers perform beneath the Matson Lines sign at a Honolulu Harbor pier, circa 1960.
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Hula troupe with outstretched arms beside the starred Matson M emblem during a circa 1960 Honolulu Boat Day greeting — Arms extended, the troupe dances beside the starred M house flag of Matson Lines.
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Wide grainy 8mm view of a hula group before a two-panel Matson Lines sign on a Honolulu pier wall, circa 1960 — A wide handheld view shows the two-panel Matson Lines board against the tall pier-shed wall.
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Hula dancers before the Matson Lines sign with blurred onlookers in front, Honolulu Harbor, circa 1960 — The framing drifts lower, taking in the front row of dancers and blurred onlookers at the edge.
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