New Orleans USA-1952: Weathered Wooden Pier at Harbor

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 New Orleans

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Weathered Wooden Pier at Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a weathered wooden pier structure at a harbor, viewed through a dark frame. The foreground features a white railing and stacked wooden pilings, with a calm body of water and distant ships visible in the background under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American waterfront scene. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123336078

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 1863 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: new orleans
Date: 1952 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: New Orleans, 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 1950s American harbor cutaways, waterfront establishing inserts, or documentary sequences needing modest visitor-shot New Orleans port detail.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century wooden pier pilings, a simple white rail, distant harbor traffic, and overcast waterfront conditions consistent with the 1952 reel metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, held from behind a dark frame or obstruction as the camera lingers on working harbor structures rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark vertical framing, white railing, weathered timber pilings, diagonal bracing, calm water, distant ships, cloudy sky, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, pale color, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks, and slight handheld drift that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief harbor insert, travel transition, industrial waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a New Orleans or road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The view presents a working waterfront detail from a home-movie perspective, showing harbor infrastructure and distant vessels without identifiable people or signage.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location context, and any property or access questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search fit includes 1952 8mm New Orleans harbor footage, vintage wooden pier structures, mid-century waterfront cutaway, and home movie port scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other New Orleans 1952 travel footage, then broader 1950s harbor, pier, waterfront, or American road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 New Orleans harbor view with weathered wooden pier structures, a white railing, calm water, and distant ships. — Weathered pier structures and railing frame a distant harbor view.

New Orleans harbor detail from 1952 showing timber pier bracing, a pale railing, water, and distant ship silhouettes. — A pale railing crosses in front of timber pier supports at the harbor.

Closer 1952 New Orleans harbor frame with stacked wooden pilings, vertical supports, railing, and pale water beyond. — Stacked wooden pilings fill the frame behind the foreground railing.

1952 New Orleans waterfront frame with wooden pier supports, diagonal bracing, a foreground railing, and calm harbor water. — Wooden pier supports stand beside calm water in a brief harbor cutaway.

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