Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA-1964: A Barge Navigating A Delaware River Lock

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Pennsylvania

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A Barge Navigating A Delaware River Lock — Clip Details

Vintage 1964 8mm home movie footage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing a barge navigating a canal lock system on the Delaware River. The clip captures the industrial infrastructure of the lock gates and waterway, with a clear view of a sign reading 'DELAWARE'. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, purple color cast, film grain, and edge damage. The camera moves through the lock, offering a first-person perspective of the journey, with a brief blurry transition suggesting motion. This authentic archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 120928006

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: 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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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: This 1964 8mm clip supports archive requests for mid-1960s industrial waterway, river transport, and canal lock material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The visible lock structure, barge-level viewpoint, and large DELAWARE sign provide era-specific infrastructure detail consistent with the supplied 1964 Philadelphia-area metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot or passenger-shot home movie, recording the passage through a lock from a moving vessel rather than a staged industrial view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lock gates, calm water, concrete or metal lock walls, a large DELAWARE sign, distant shoreline, film gate edges, and motion blur from the moving camera.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with purple color shift, grain, handheld movement, slight exposure variation, and visible edge wear from the physical film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short industrial travel insert, waterway transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about river transport or regional movement.
Historical context: The clip visually situates small-gauge home-movie documentation within working water infrastructure, showing how industrial river spaces could be recorded from an ordinary traveler perspective.
Research note: No people or private interiors are visible, but the readable DELAWARE sign and any related site identification should receive normal rights and editorial-context review because copyright, trademark, and property issues are separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1960s 8mm Delaware River lock footage, Philadelphia waterway home movie, barge in canal lock, and vintage industrial river transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Philadelphia or Delaware River material, then with broader lock, barge, canal, and industrial waterway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Philadelphia-area 8mm footage shows lock gates, water, lock walls, and distant shoreline from a vessel-level viewpoint. — Approaching lock gates from the water.

A blurred 1964 8mm frame shows the vessel moving through the lock area with water, side walls, and shoreline visible beyond the structure. — Motion-blurred passage through the lock.

The 1964 8mm footage includes a close view of a large DELAWARE sign above industrial waterway structure or vessel detail. — Readable DELAWARE sign in the lock sequence.

A soft 8mm frame from the end of the lock sequence shows a pale surface with faint horizontal bands, scratches, and edge wear rather than distinct subject detail. — Faded transition frame with film wear.

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