San Diego Naval Base-1981: U.S. Navy Cargo Ship Sailing On Open Ocean

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Year1981
Decade1980s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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U.S. Navy Cargo Ship Sailing On Open Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1981 captures a U.S. Navy cargo ship, hull number 146, sailing on open ocean waters. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the vessel underway from multiple angles, including a side view and a trailing perspective from another ship. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with soft focus, color degradation, and natural film grain. The scene conveys a sense of maritime routine and naval operations during the Cold War era, with the ship cutting through calm seas under overcast skies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120917853

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1981 8mm clip helps answer requests for Cold War-era U.S. Navy logistics or support-vessel footage for documentary inserts, naval history sequences, and maritime transition shots.
Period detail: Visible clues include a gray U.S. Navy vessel with hull number 146, open-ocean formation movement, shipboard railings, rigging, wake patterns, and the color-faded 8mm look associated with early 1980s home-movie filming.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged shipboard observer's view, filmed from another vessel as the cargo ship passes, recedes, and runs alongside on open water.
What appears in frame: The frames show a gray naval cargo ship, hull number 146, open sea, ship wakes, a filming vessel's side rail and deck hardware, distant horizon, rigging lines, and soft overcast sky.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm archival texture through soft focus, uneven exposure, muted blue-green color, film grain, slight frame instability, and contact-print edge softness.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief naval operations insert, ocean transit cutaway, ship-to-ship perspective, or quiet transitional beat in a maritime or Cold War-era sequence.
Historical context: The imagery may show routine naval movement at sea rather than combat action, with the camera emphasizing vessel scale, wake, and distance between ships.
Research note: No people, children, faces, logos, or audible music are evident from the supplied frames, but the military vessel identity and hull number should be reviewed separately from copyright, access, and any archive licensing requirements.
Research search match: Relevant search phrasing includes 1981 8mm U.S. Navy cargo ship at sea, naval support vessel hull 146, ship-to-ship home movie, open ocean Navy footage, and Cold War-era maritime transit.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with verified 1981 naval-base or shipboard material if available, and then with broader U.S. Navy open-ocean, logistics, and maritime travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A gray U.S. Navy cargo or support ship marked with hull number 146 moves across open water in 1981-era 8mm footage, leaving a foamy wake behind it. — U.S. Navy vessel 146 underway at sea.

A gray naval ship travels off the side of the filming vessel, with railings, rigging, a red deck fitting, open sea, and the ship's wake visible in the frame. — Ship-to-ship view from a naval vessel.

A naval ship appears in the distance beyond a wide curving wake, with part of the filming vessel's side structure and rigging visible along the right edge. — Distant ship beyond the wake.

A gray naval vessel sits far across the water while the filming vessel's wake curves through the foreground and shipboard fixtures appear at the right edge. — Naval vessel receding across open water.

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