New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: A Speedboat Passes A Transport Ship At Anchor In

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

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A Speedboat Passes A Transport Ship At Anchor In — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, showing a large transport ship named FERNBROOK docked at a port. The grainy, color-tinted film captures the ship's dark hull and white superstructure under a cloudy sky. A smaller speedboat moves across the water, leaving a visible wake, while the camera appears to be filming from another vessel. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with film grain, slight blurriness, and natural lighting, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic 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: 120978525

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: 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: 1958 New Orleans harbor footage helps document maritime transport, port activity, and small craft movement for historical inserts or documentary cutaways.
Period detail: The clip shows a mid-century cargo vessel with a dark hull, white superstructure, masts, rigging, and visible ship lettering in a working harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint appears to be from another vessel, giving the scene an unstaged traveler or passenger perspective across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the cargo ship, hull lettering, white deckhouse, masts and cranes, cloudy sky, harbor wall, water surface, and speedboat wake.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted color, gate edges, dust specks, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime insert, harbor transition, vessel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s travel or port sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates New Orleans as a working waterfront, with large commercial shipping seen from a moving or nearby boat.
Research note: Ship name or lettering may require identification review, and copyright, trademark, likeness, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 New Orleans harbor 8mm, cargo ship at port, transport ship with speedboat wake, and mid-century maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1958 New Orleans waterfront footage, then with broader harbor, shipping, and small-boat scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Orleans harbor view of a cargo ship with a dark hull, white superstructure, masts, and visible name lettering. — Cargo ship seen broadside from the water, with hull lettering and rigging visible.

1958 New Orleans waterfront frame showing the cargo ship's side, white deckhouse, rigging, and moving water in front. — The cargo vessel remains in view as water wake crosses the lower edge of the frame.

1958 New Orleans harbor view of the rear portion of a cargo ship, with deck structures, masts, water, and a low port wall. — A closer view of the ship's aft section passes through the handheld frame.

1958 New Orleans harbor frame with the ship's stern area, rigging, low wall, and rippled water from passing boat movement. — The vessel's stern area recedes behind foreground water wake and a low harbor wall.

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