San Francisco California-1953: On The Water Looking At The Harbour There Are

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

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On The Water Looking At The Harbour There Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a harbor from a moving vessel. The clip shows a wide expanse of deep blue water with a distant shoreline featuring rolling hills and industrial structures. A large ship moves across the frame, passing a dock with a prominent crane. The footage has a distinct blue color cast and grainy texture typical of Super 8 film from the early 1950s. The perspective suggests the camera is looking out from a window or porthole, with dark framing on the sides. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime activity and coastal scenery.

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: 123344909

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 archival requests needing San Francisco harbor atmosphere, maritime travel inserts, or mid-century coastal establishing material.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century harbor view with working ships, shoreline structures, cranes, and low industrial waterfront forms seen from the water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor or passenger filming through a vessel opening, capturing an unstaged waterfront passage rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, distant hills, shoreline buildings, a large ship, smaller vessels, a dockside crane, and dark window or film-edge framing.
Film character: The 8mm image carries strong blue color, visible grain, soft focus, slight gate weave, and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief harbor insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a sequence about Bay Area movement by water.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for mid-century waterfront activity, showing ships and industrial shoreline against the hilly San Francisco landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, vessel identification, and any recognizable property or infrastructure concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm San Francisco harbor footage, home movie from boat, blue water waterfront ships, and archival Bay Area maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1952 San Francisco harbor views, then broader 1950s West Coast maritime and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 San Francisco harbor view from the water, with blue bay surface, distant hills, shoreline buildings, and dark framing from the filming position. — Harbor water and distant hilly shoreline seen through a dark-framed opening.

1952 San Francisco harbor scene with deep blue water, distant hills, small boats, and a dockside crane or mast near the shoreline. — Distant vessels and waterfront structures across the blue harbor.

1952 San Francisco harbor view with a large ship moving across blue water before distant hills and low waterfront structures. — A large vessel passes across the harbor against the hilly shoreline.

1952 San Francisco harbor frame showing a large ship near the foreground, blue water, distant hilly shoreline, and a crane or mast beyond. — Foreground ship and distant waterfront crane seen from a moving vessel.

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