Niagra Falls New York-1964: Large Tanker Ship In The Dock.

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Tanker Ship In The Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing the large tanker ship CASON J. CALLAWAY docked at a canal lock in Niagara Falls, New York. The clip captures the white-hulled vessel with its distinctive black smokestack, viewed through a window frame, as it navigates the lock system. The scene features the ship's deck, railings, and cargo holds under a cloudy sky, with a nearby building and waterway visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century industrial river transport.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120817263

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 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: 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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to editorial requests for Great Lakes-era industrial shipping, canal lock operations, or visitor-shot transportation cutaways in Niagara Falls, New York.
Period detail: The white lake freighter, open cargo holds, dockside lock walls, and faded color 8mm stock support a mid-1960s industrial-waterway setting.
Home-movie behavior: The framing from behind a window or structural divider gives the clip the feel of a visitor observing a large ship passing through a lock rather than a staged maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the CASON J. CALLAWAY name on the ship, a white pilothouse, black smokestack, red-brown cargo hatch covers, concrete lock walls, water, railings, and a dockside building.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading toward purple-blue, mild exposure variation, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, industrial travel cutaway, transportation transition, or memory beat within a sequence about waterways, shipping, or Niagara-area tourism.
Historical context: The clip visually places a large commercial vessel within a public lock or dock environment, suggesting how industrial shipping infrastructure could become part of a visitor's home-movie record.
Research note: Human review should note visible people at the frame edge and the readable vessel name, with copyright, trademark or vessel-identification issues considered separately from any likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches might include 1960s 8mm Great Lakes freighter, Niagara Falls New York canal lock home movie, CASON J. CALLAWAY ship docked, and vintage industrial water transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Niagara Falls or New York footage from 1964, and then with broader 1960s shipping, canal, dock, or industrial transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame from Niagara Falls, New York showing a large white freighter in a canal lock, with cargo hatch covers, railings, water, and a dockside building in view. — White freighter in the lock with cargo hatches visible.

1964 Niagara Falls, New York home-movie frame showing the CASON J. CALLAWAY in a lock, partially divided by a dark window or structural frame at the foreground. — CASON J. CALLAWAY viewed through a foreground divider.

1964 8mm home-movie frame showing a white freighter in the Niagara Falls, New York lock area, with hatch covers, railings, water, and dock structures visible. — Freighter and lock walkway from a visitor viewpoint.

1964 Niagara Falls, New York frame showing the CASON J. CALLAWAY in a lock, with a partial visitor figure at the foreground edge and dockside infrastructure around the vessel. — Ship in lock with a partial foreground visitor.

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