San Diego Naval Base-1981: Warship At Docks

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Year1981
Decade1980s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Warship At Docks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1981 shows a U.S. Navy warship, hull number 996, docked at the San Diego Naval Base. The grainy, monochrome film captures the massive vessel from multiple angles as it rests in calm water, with a small motorboat passing by. The ship's radar arrays and superstructure are visible against a backdrop of shoreline buildings and trees. The footage exhibits classic home movie characteristics with film grain, slight motion blur, and natural lighting, offering a nostalgic glimpse into Cold War-era naval operations.

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: 120918085

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: Archival home-movie footage suited to requests for early 1980s U.S. Navy dockside material, Cold War-era military infrastructure, or editorial cutaways of a warship at harbor.
Period detail: The supplied 1981 date and visible naval vessel with hull number 996, radar masts, dock structures, shoreline buildings, and monochrome 8mm texture place the clip in a late-20th-century military harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot or bystander perspective, observing the vessel from across calm water without staged action or visible crew interaction.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames, the clip shows a large U.S. Navy vessel, hull number 996, tall radar and mast structures, calm harbor water, dock edges, shoreline buildings, trees, and a passing small motorboat.
Film character: The scan carries visible film grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical character of amateur 8mm footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, harbor transition, military cutaway, or visual memory beat for naval base activity in the early 1980s.
Historical context: The images show a docked naval warship in a harbor environment identified by supplied metadata as San Diego Naval Base, without visible combat, ceremony, personnel, or public event context.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the military vessel, hull number, and naval-base setting may require contextual review separate from copyright and any property or government-use considerations.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1981 8mm Navy warship at docks, U.S. naval base harbor home movie, hull number 996 ship footage, and Cold War-era docked military vessel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with San Diego or 1981 naval-base material if verified, and then with broader harbor, military ship, dock, and Cold War-era infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Grainy 8mm frame of a large U.S. Navy warship at dock, viewed from across calm water in footage supplied as 1981 naval-base material. — Warship viewed across harbor water.

Naval vessel with visible hull number 996 rests beside a dock, with masts, deck equipment, harbor water, and low shoreline buildings in the background. — Hull number 996 at the dock.

Closer grainy view of the docked naval vessel shows hull number 996, mast structures, upper decks, and shoreline buildings beyond the harbor. — Closer view of hull 996 and masts.

Side-on 8mm frame of the docked warship shows its superstructure, two prominent mast assemblies, calm water reflections, and harbor shoreline in the distance. — Side view of docked naval vessel.

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