Washington DC USA-1943: White Ship Docked at Harbor

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Washington DC

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White Ship Docked at Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a large white ship docked at a harbor in Washington DC. The vessel, featuring multiple tall masts and a classic mid-century design, remains stationary alongside a pier with a small building. The footage, viewed through the frame of a film projector, shows slight camera movement and the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm film from the era. The scene evokes a sense of wartime maritime activity and historical Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123137993

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 1719 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1942-1943
Reel-level location note: washington dc,baltimore
Date: 1943 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: Washington, DC, 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

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: Useful for 1940s Washington, DC maritime or wartime-era harbor cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The white multi-masted vessel, pier structure, and 8mm color stock support a mid-1940s harbor view, with the exact vessel identity not confirmed from the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing a docked ship from across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large white ship, tall masts and rigging, a pier, a small waterfront building, calm harbor water, blue sky, and film frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm focus, saturated blue and white tones, visible grain, slight weave, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor establishing shot, maritime cutaway, wartime-era transition, or quiet memory beat between travel or city scenes.
Historical context: The view places a large docked vessel in a Washington, DC waterfront setting during the 1940s, but the frames do not identify a specific event or voyage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but vessel identity, location specifics, copyright status, and property permissions may still need review.
Research search match: Searches for 1943 8mm Washington DC harbor, white ship at pier, 1940s docked vessel, vintage maritime home movie, and wartime-era waterfront may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1943 Washington, DC footage, then with 1940s harbor, ship, pier, and maritime cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Washington, DC harbor footage showing a large white multi-masted ship docked beside a pier, seen through 8mm film frames. — A large white ship rests alongside a waterfront pier under a clear sky.

The docked white vessel remains stationary in the Washington, DC harbor view, with masts, rigging, pier, and water visible. — The ship is framed slightly closer, with its pier and small waterfront building visible.

A closer 8mm frame shows the white ship at the pier in Washington, DC, with bow, deck structures, masts, and harbor water visible. — The camera view shifts closer toward the ship's bow and pier area.

Final frame of the 1943 Washington, DC harbor shot, showing the white docked ship partly cropped by the 8mm contact-frame border. — The docked ship remains still as the frame crops part of the vessel at the right edge.

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