Niagra Falls New York-1964: Big Boat Waiting In A Lock For Its Turn

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Big Boat Waiting In A Lock For Its Turn — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1964 captures the Cason J. Callaway, a large freighter, navigating a lock system near Niagara Falls, New York. The clip shows the ship's massive hull and deck structure as it moves through the waterway, with the name clearly visible on the side. The scene is filmed from a dockside vantage point, with a person partially visible in the foreground, adding a human element to the industrial setting. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel. The surrounding landscape features calm water and distant green fields under an overcast sky, emphasizing the scale of the vessel and the engineering of the lock system.

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: 120817331

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

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for Great Lakes-era freight shipping, lock operations, and industrial waterway travel near Niagara Falls, New York.
Period detail: The freighter design, dockside lock setting, muted 8mm color, and visible vessel name Cason J. Callaway support a mid-1960s industrial waterway scene, with the stated 1964 date carried from clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot observation, with a partly visible person leaning into the foreground while the camera watches the freighter wait in the lock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the large freighter hull, open cargo holds, the ship name Cason J. Callaway, lock walls, dockside structures, water, distant green shoreline, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The footage shows authentic 8mm texture with soft focus, grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the feel of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an industrial cutaway, transportation insert, lock-system transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s travel or Great Lakes shipping sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents how a private camera encountered large-scale freight movement as part of a waterside visit, emphasizing the contrast between casual spectatorship and heavy industrial transport.
Research note: Human review should consider the partially visible person, the readable vessel name, and any copyright or trademark questions separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1964 8mm Niagara Falls lock footage, Cason J. Callaway freighter home movie, Great Lakes ship in lock, and vintage industrial waterway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Niagara Falls or New York waterway footage, and then with broader vintage freighter, canal, dock, or lock-operation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame near Niagara Falls, New York, showing the side of a large freighter beside a lock wall with water and low green shoreline in the distance. — Freighter hull along the lock wall.

1964 8mm frame near Niagara Falls, New York, showing the Cason J. Callaway freighter in a lock with open cargo holds and a partly visible person at the lower left. — Cason J. Callaway waiting in the lock.

1964 8mm frame near Niagara Falls, New York, showing the freighter Cason J. Callaway from above as it sits in a lock beside dockside structures and water. — Freighter deck and cargo holds from above.

1964 8mm frame near Niagara Falls, New York, showing the Cason J. Callaway freighter aligned in a lock with repeated cargo-hold covers and a partly visible spectator in the foreground. — Ship name visible as the freighter waits.

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