Hawaii-1969: Dancers in Blue Tops and Fringed Skirts Perform Before a Packed Crowd

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 · Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Polynesian dance
tourism
cultural performance
audience
1960s travel
vacation
photography

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Outdoor performance lawn with a roped-off audience area, trees, a shingled pavilion and a tall building behind
Time and weather: day · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright natural sunlight with dappled shade
People: 60 · Two or three Polynesian women dancers in blue tops, headbands and fringed fibre skirts; a large crowd of adult tourists, children and sailors in white caps, many holding cameras
Objects: fringed fibre skirts · headbands · rope barrier · cameras · sailor caps · eyeglasses · shingled roof
Readable signs: FABRICS
Colors: blue · green · beige · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Two dancers in blue tops and fringed skirts perform in front of a crowd lined up behind a rope.
The dancers turn, their skirts swinging, while spectators take photographs.
The view moves to a shingled roof with a FABRICS sign and a tall building behind it.
The dancers raise their arms overhead as the audience watches.

Dancers in Blue Tops and Fringed Skirts Perform Before a... — Clip Details

Hawaii, circa 1969 home movie footage of two Polynesian women dancers in blue tops, headbands and fringed fibre skirts performing on a lawn at an outdoor show. Behind a low rope barrier, a dense audience of tourists, sailors in white caps and children watches, many holding cameras. Later the view shifts to a shingled pavilion roof with a partly legible FABRICS sign and a tall building beyond. The single handheld shot follows the dancers with loose pans in bright daylight.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002200

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 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: Serves requests for late-1960s Hawaii tourism footage showing Polynesian dancers and large visitor audiences, for documentary, educational or nostalgic productions.
Period detail: Audience clothing, horn-rimmed and cat-eye style glasses, sailor caps and handheld still cameras point to the late 1960s, and the faded colour fits film stock of that period.
Home-movie behavior: Filmed by a visitor standing at the edge of the show, the footage records both the dancers and the crowd of fellow tourists photographing them.
What appears in frame: Two dancers in blue tops and fringed skirts, a rope barrier, rows of spectators with cameras, sailors in white caps, a shingled pavilion roof with a FABRICS sign, and a tall building beyond.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, blue-magenta colour shift and sunlit highlights give it the texture of a projected small-gauge home movie.
Edit role: Works as a cutaway or memory beat within a sequence on island vacations, or as an insert showing audience scale at a cultural performance.
Historical context: The clip shows a Polynesian dance show staged outdoors for a large tourist audience in Hawaii, part of the visitor entertainment of the late 1960s.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness: performers, children and crowd members are recognisable, and costume designs and the shop sign may carry their own rights considerations.
Research search match: Tahitian dancers 1960s, Polynesian show Hawaii home movie, tourists at hula show, vintage Hawaii vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's group hula with musicians, Tahitian grass-skirt solo and feather-gourd dancer clips, then other late-1960s Hawaii footage, then mid-century tourist performance scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Polynesian dancers in blue tops and fringed fibre skirts before tourists at an outdoor show in Hawaii, circa 1969 — Two dancers in blue tops and fringed skirts open the routine before a packed audience.
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Dancer turning in a fringed fibre skirt while 1960s tourists photograph the show, Hawaii, circa 1969 — A dancer turns mid-routine while spectators raise their cameras.
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Polynesian dancer before a dense 1960s crowd beneath a pavilion with a FABRICS sign, Hawaii, circa 1969 — The audience stands several rows deep beneath a pavilion roof with a FABRICS sign.
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Two Tahitian-style dancers lift their arms before a large tourist audience at an outdoor show, Hawaii, circa 1969 — Two dancers lift their arms overhead as the crowd looks on.
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