Niagra Falls New York-1964: Boat At The Docks

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Boat At The Docks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1964 captures the Cason J. Callaway ship navigating a canal lock in Niagara Falls, New York. The white and brown vessel, with its name clearly visible, moves slowly through the waterway as crew members appear on deck. The film shows the ship's distinctive features, including life preservers, railings, and a small boat secured on the upper deck. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with natural colors and subtle motion, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century maritime activity in a historic American location.

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: 120817316

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

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: 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: This clip helps solve requests for 1960s United States maritime or canal-lock footage for documentary inserts, industrial history sequences, and archive-led travel or infrastructure edits.
Period detail: The vessel design, painted hull lettering, open deck equipment, and 8mm color home-movie look support the supplied 1964 setting while showing mid-century ship activity at a dock or lock.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the large ship from above or alongside as it moves slowly past rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Cason J. Callaway hull lettering, white upper decks, railings, life rings, deck cranes, a covered small boat, water or lock walls, and distant shoreline.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give the clip physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime cutaway, a transition into canal or dock activity, or a memory beat for 1960s travel footage near Niagara Falls, New York.
Historical context: The frames visually document a large named vessel passing through a controlled waterway setting, offering context for everyday shipping or tour observation without proving a specific event.
Research note: Human review should confirm vessel-name use, any visible crew likenesses, and copyright status separately, since visible branding or identification does not by itself establish clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1964 8mm ship at dock, Cason J. Callaway vessel footage, Niagara Falls New York canal lock home movie, and vintage maritime waterway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Niagara Falls or New York waterway material, and finally with broader 1960s ship, dock, canal, or industrial travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame showing the upper deck of the Cason J. Callaway vessel at or near a dock or lock in Niagara Falls, New York, with deck equipment and partial name lettering visible. — Upper deck and partial name lettering on the vessel.

The Cason J. Callaway appears alongside a waterway or lock, with upper-deck cranes, railings, a red life ring, and a covered small boat visible in the 1964 home-movie frame. — Ship deck equipment and covered boat beside the waterway.

Bow-side view of the Cason J. Callaway in 1964 footage, showing the vessel name in large lettering, red-brown hull paint, upper railings, and nearby lock or dock surfaces. — Cason J. Callaway name visible along the hull.

The Cason J. Callaway passes through or alongside a lock or dock area in the 1964 Niagara Falls, New York footage, with hull lettering, railings, cranes, and paved waterway edges visible. — Named ship moving past the lock or dock edge.

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