New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Day Out on the Water

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Orleans Louisiana

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Day Out on the Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, capturing a serene day out on the water. The clip features a large cargo ship and a smaller boat navigating calm waters under a partly cloudy sky. A woman's profile appears in one frame, smiling as she gazes at the scenery, suggesting a leisurely family outing. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color palette, and visible grain, scratches, and edge damage. The perspective suggests filming from a moving boat, offering a nostalgic, personal view of mid-century American tourism and river travel.

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: 120978456

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: 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: 1958 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: New Orleans, Louisiana, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing home-movie water travel, New Orleans river activity, or mid-century leisure footage for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm source and visible cargo vessel, small boat, open water, and soft color home-movie framing support a mid-century river outing context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel from a moving boat, with casual framing of passing vessels and a brief partial view of a woman near the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad water, distant shoreline, a small boat, a large cargo ship, partly cloudy sky, boat railing or seating, and a partial woman’s profile.
Film character: The clip shows handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, muted color, gate edges, scratches, dust, and slight exposure variation across the contact frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, river-travel insert, transitional water view, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s family travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates a leisure boat outing alongside working river traffic, without identifying a specific vessel, route, landmark, or event.
Research note: A partial face appears and may require likeness review; copyright, location, vessel identity, and any property or access issues should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 New Orleans 8mm water footage, vintage home movie boat ride, cargo ship on river, and mid-century Louisiana travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 New Orleans or Louisiana water scenes, then with broader vintage tourism and river travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Orleans-area home-movie frame showing open water, a distant small boat, low shoreline, and partly cloudy sky. — A small boat passes near the distant shoreline during a water outing.

A partial passenger profile enters the frame as the camera looks across the water.

Soft 1958 home-movie frame from a moving boat, showing water, a distant small boat, shoreline, and foreground boat detail. — The moving camera catches a distant boat and foreground boat detail across the water.

1958 New Orleans-area home-movie frame showing a large cargo ship on the water near a low shoreline under scattered clouds. — A large cargo ship moves or sits near the shoreline as filmed from the water.

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