San Francisco California-1953: The Ship Was Traveling In The Water

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 San Francisco California

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The Ship Was Traveling In The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a ship cutting through choppy ocean waters from a side view. The footage, filmed in San Francisco, California, shows the vessel's hull and railing against a deep blue sea with whitecaps forming in the wake. The image has a distinct blue color cast and grainy texture typical of Super 8 film from the era. The camera remains steady, offering a continuous view of the ship's movement and the turbulent water, evoking a sense of mid-century maritime travel and adventure.

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: 123343478

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
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: San Francisco, California, 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 8mm maritime travel requests needing a shipboard cutaway of rough water near San Francisco.
Period detail: The visible clue is the home-movie view from alongside a vessel, with no identifiable landmarks or dated signage in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a passenger filming from the deck or side of a moving ship, watching the wake and hull pass through choppy water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the vessel side, dark railing or structure, blue ocean surface, white wake, spray, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a dense blue color cast, soft 8mm grain, steady framing, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, sea-motion cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century journey sequence.
Historical context: The view documents ordinary shipboard observation rather than a named event, emphasizing movement through open water and the passenger perspective.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but copyright status and vessel or property identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm ship wake, San Francisco maritime home movie, vintage ocean travel footage, and blue-tinted rough sea cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other San Francisco 1952 travel footage, then broader mid-century ship and ocean scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 San Francisco home-movie frame showing a ship side and railing beside blue ocean water with white wake. — A side view from a moving ship shows choppy blue water and wake beside the hull.

A blue-tinted 1952 shipboard view near San Francisco shows the vessel edge and foamy water moving alongside. — Foamy wake trails along the side of the vessel in a steady shipboard view.

The ship side remains at left while blue-white ocean foam churns below in this 1952 8mm travel frame. — The water grows more turbulent beside the hull, filling the lower part of the frame with foam.

A broad wash of white wake spreads next to the ship side in blue-tinted 1952 San Francisco maritime footage. — A broad burst of wake and spray spreads across the water beside the moving vessel.

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