Hawaii-1969: Tahitian Dancers in Colored Pareus Perform Before a Packed Crowd

Catalog date: estimated · Catalog location: estimated. Review source evidence · Request a source quality check

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use, plus internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 · Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

From the same film reel

1969 · Honolulu & Hawaii · Reel e360c0b6 contains 22 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1969 · Hawaii, United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1969Explore the year →Across the yearsHawaii, United StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

Polynesian dance
tourist entertainment
1960s travel
Pacific Island culture
performance and audience
vacation home movies

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · outdoor performance ground with a grass stage, spectator area behind a railing, and tropical trees
Time and weather: midday · sunny
Lighting: bright, hard sunlight with strong contrast
People: 40 · Three young women dancing in pareus, white fringe waistbands and white crowns, one wearing a yellow lei; behind them a large crowd of adult spectators, many in sun hats and sunglasses, some holding cameras.
Objects: pareus · fringe waistbands · white crowns · yellow lei · railing · lava rocks · white post · cameras held by spectators
Colors: green · pink · yellow · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

Select a time to watch that moment in the preview.

Three dancers in pink, yellow and green pareus sway with their backs to the camera before a dense crowd.
The camera drifts right as the dancer in green moves across the frame.
The dancer in green faces the camera with one arm raised and a yellow lei on her chest.
She turns away again and the row of dancers keeps moving.

Tahitian Dancers in Colored Pareus Perform Before a... — Clip Details

Likely Hawaii, circa 1969, home movie footage of an outdoor Polynesian show. Three women in pink, yellow and green pareus with white fringe waistbands and white crowns dance Tahitian-style on a grass stage, first with their backs to the camera, while a dense crowd watches from behind a low railing and lava rocks. Midway, the woman in green turns toward the lens with one arm raised and a yellow lei on her chest. One continuous handheld shot under bright sun, with large-leaved trees behind the audience.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002201

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits requests for late-1960s footage of Polynesian dance shows staged for tourists, likely in Hawaii, for documentary, education or travel-history productions.
Period detail: Spectators wear late-1960s short-sleeved shirts, sun hats and cat-eye or wide sunglasses, and some hold small cameras, and the faded color stock may show the period's home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from among the tourist audience, the clip shows the show the way a visiting family saw it, with the camera drifting to follow whichever dancer caught the operator's eye.
What appears in frame: Three dancers in pink, yellow and green pareus, white fringe waistbands and white crowns, a yellow lei, a packed crowd behind a low railing, dark lava rocks, large-leaved trees and a tall white post.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a pink and green color shift and hard midday contrast give the shot a real small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a short cutaway or memory beat in a sequence on island tourism, or as a colorful bridge between establishing shots of a Hawaii trip.
Historical context: The large, closely packed audience reflects how popular staged Polynesian performances were with visitors on Hawaii trips in this period.
Research note: The performers and many spectators may be identifiable, so likeness releases are a separate question from the film copyright, and the venue and any choreography may have their own rights, so no clearance is implied.
Research search match: Tahitian dancers 1960s home movie, Polynesian show tourist crowd, women in pareus dancing, vintage Hawaii dance performance footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Tahitian grass-skirt solo, group hula with musicians, seated pu'ili stick hula and feather-gourd dancer, then other late-1960s Hawaii travel footage, then Pacific dance performances generally.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two Tahitian-style dancers in pink and yellow pareus perform before a packed tourist crowd, likely Hawaii, circa 1969. — Dancers in pink and yellow pareus with fringe waistbands perform before a dense audience.
License this still · $49

Row of three dancers in pink, yellow and green pareus seen from behind at an outdoor Polynesian show, likely Hawaii, circa 1969. — A row of three dancers, seen from behind, sways in front of the audience and large-leaved trees.
License this still · $49

Dancer in green pareu and yellow lei faces the camera, arm raised, at a crowded Polynesian show, likely Hawaii, circa 1969. — The dancer in green turns toward the camera with a raised arm as the audience looks on.
License this still · $49

Tahitian-style dancers in yellow and green pareus turn back toward a large 1960s tourist crowd, likely Hawaii, circa 1969. — The dancers turn away again, facing the crowd gathered behind the railing.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips