Las Vegas USA-1977: Marina with Docked Boats in Las Vegas

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 Las Vegas

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Marina with Docked Boats in Las Vegas — Clip Details

Aerial vintage 8mm footage from 1977 showing a large, protected marina in Las Vegas, USA, filled with numerous boats docked in organized slips. The grainy, purple-tinted film captures a wide view of the waterway and surrounding infrastructure, with a parking lot and buildings visible in the foreground. The camera pans slowly across the marina, revealing rows of boats and long docks extending into the water. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of home movie recordings from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121121190

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 1386 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1977
Reel-level location note: hawaii,las vegas
Date: 1977 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip suits documentary or commercial productions needing 1970s elevated-perspective marina and recreational boating infrastructure footage, likely from the American Southwest.
Period detail: The faded purple 8mm emulsion and 1970s-era dock construction visible in the frames are consistent with the stated 1977 date; the large marina on open water may be a desert-reservoir facility.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a fixed elevated vantage point—possibly a building or observation deck—this has the quality of a visitor recording a scenic panorama rather than staged documentation.
What appears in frame: Rows of moored boats fill organized finger slips, a central marina channel divides the basin, a flat-roofed building sits near the waterfront, and open flat water extends to a low horizon.
Film character: A pervasive blue-purple colour cast from aged 8mm emulsion, visible grain throughout, and slight motion blur during the slow pan give the footage its unmistakably analogue archival texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing cutaway or transition insert for 1970s American recreational boating, leisure marina culture, or desert-lake water recreation sequences.
Historical context: Recreational boating infrastructure expanded significantly around reservoir lakes in the American Southwest in the 1970s; if near Las Vegas, this may document a desert-lake marina such as those on Lake Mead.
Research note: No identifiable individuals or legible signage are visible; the marina facilities and any buildings shown are private or commercial property whose clearance status should be independently confirmed.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1970s marina aerial view, vintage boating dock footage, American Southwest water recreation, or 8mm waterfront nostalgia film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1977 reel; then with Nevada or desert-lake recreation footage from the same era; then with broader American marina and boating clips of the 1970s.

Still Frames From This Clip

Elevated view of a densely packed marina with rows of moored boats in finger slips, shot on faded 8mm film, possibly at a desert-lake marina, USA, circa 1977. — Aerial-perspective view of packed marina slips with rows of moored boats, circa 1977.

Panned aerial-perspective view of a 1970s marina showing organized boat slips, a central waterway, and a marina building, on aging 8mm film, USA, circa 1977. — Marina slips and central channel with flat-roofed building at frame center, circa 1977.

Elevated view of dock fingers mostly empty of boats, open flat water beyond, and shoreline vegetation at frame edge, faded 8mm film, USA, circa 1977. — Empty dock fingers extending into calm open water with vegetation at frame edge, circa 1977.

Aerial-perspective view of marina dock infrastructure and moored boats with expansive open water and low flat horizon beyond, 8mm film, USA, circa 1977. — Marina dock layout with open water and flat horizon visible beyond the slips, circa 1977.

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