San Diego Naval Base-1981: Large White Naval Ship Gliding Through Open Ocean

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Year1981
Decade1980s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large White Naval Ship Gliding Through Open Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from 1981 showing a large white naval ship, hull number 146, gliding through open ocean waters near the San Diego Naval Base. The ship moves steadily, creating a white wake as it cuts through the blue sea under a bright sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and visible film scratches are characteristic of home movie 8mm footage. The camera captures the vessel from a side angle, emphasizing its size and motion. This archival clip offers authentic military maritime history with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 120917845

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: 1981 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: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
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: Archival 1980s 8mm footage suited to documentary or educational requests for a naval vessel underway at sea, especially as maritime, military, or San Diego Naval Base related visual material with cautious location attribution.
Period detail: The clip may show an early 1980s naval support or auxiliary ship, with the visible hull number 146, white-painted superstructure, and physical film color typical of consumer 8mm material from the stated period.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot or observer-shot home movie, watching the ship pass steadily across open water from a nearby vessel or shoreline vantage rather than from a staged production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the large white ship, hull number 146, open blue ocean, foaming wake, deck equipment, mast structures, distant horizon, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, slight color fade, exposure variation, gate edges, and small scratches that give the naval scene a tactile home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime insert, military transport cutaway, ocean transition, or memory beat within a sequence about naval travel, coastal defense, or shipboard movement.
Historical context: The footage visually places a marked naval vessel in open water and offers context for everyday observation of military maritime activity without proving a specific mission, exercise, or port location from the frames alone.
Research note: Human review should consider the visible hull number, possible naval markings or insignia, military subject matter, and any small visible people on deck, while treating copyright, likeness, and government-vessel identification as separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches might include 1981 8mm naval ship at sea, hull number 146 ship footage, San Diego Naval Base home movie, white military vessel ocean wake, and vintage maritime 8mm film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1981 or San Diego Naval Base maritime footage, and finally with broader naval ship, ocean travel, or military transportation home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large white naval vessel with hull number 146 passes across blue open water, with deck equipment, mast structures, and a foaming wake visible in grainy 8mm footage. — Naval vessel 146 underway at sea.

The white naval vessel continues through open water at an angle, with the hull number 146 partly visible, a broad wake trailing behind, and soft 8mm grain over the frame. — Angled view of the ship and wake.

A side view shows the large white vessel marked 146 moving steadily through the sea, with the bow, deck railings, superstructure, and bright ocean wake visible within the rounded 8mm frame. — Side profile of hull number 146.

The vessel marked 146 moves through open ocean with its white bow and superstructure in view, leaving a bright wake under a pale sky in faded color 8mm footage. — Ship 146 continues across open water.

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