New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Ocean Liner at Sea

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

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Ocean Liner at Sea — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, showing a large ocean liner at sea. The clip captures the ship's white superstructure and dark hull from multiple angles, with visible deck details, smokestacks, and rigging. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering a nostalgic view of mid-century maritime travel. The ship glides across calm waters under a partly cloudy sky, with the camera maintaining a steady, observational perspective from a nearby vessel.

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: 120978471

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: 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: 1950s New Orleans maritime footage suited for documentary inserts about ocean travel, port activity, passenger liners, or mid-century waterfront views.
Period detail: The ship's dark hull, white superstructure, funnels, mast rigging, and deck railings may show mid-century passenger or cargo-liner design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the vessel from nearby water with brief reframings rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a large ship, white decks, dark hull, masts, rigging, funnels, cloudy sky, and small deck figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, gate edges, muted color, grain, and slight exposure variation that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel transition, port-memory beat, or establishing insert for a 1950s sea journey.
Historical context: The footage places a large vessel in a calm waterfront setting, reflecting mid-century leisure or transport observation without proving the ship's route or identity.
Research note: People and possible branding require review; copyright, likeness, trademark, and vessel-identification issues should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 New Orleans ocean liner, vintage 8mm ship footage, mid-century passenger ship, and home movie maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then New Orleans or 1958 waterfront material, then broader 1950s ships, harbors, travel, and ocean-liner themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Orleans home-movie frame showing a large vessel across calm water, with rigging silhouetted against a cloudy sky. — A large vessel is filmed from across the water, its masts and dark hull visible in soft 8mm focus.

1958 New Orleans footage frames the ship's white decks, funnels, railings, and dark hull, with small figures visible along the side. — The camera moves closer to the vessel's superstructure, showing decks, funnels, and small figures near the rail.

A partly cropped 1958 New Orleans frame shows the vessel's side, deckhouse, rigging, and water below in faded 8mm color. — The ship passes through a cropped frame, emphasizing the dark hull and rigging over the water.

The final frame holds on the ship's dark hull, low deck details, vertical mast lines, and rippled water under a pale sky. — A low side view shows the vessel's dark hull stretching across the frame with water in the foreground.

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