Tampa Florida USA-1960: Train Stopping At Station With Passengers Boarding

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationTampa, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Tampa Florida

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Train Stopping At Station With Passengers Boarding — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a passenger train stopped at a station in Tampa, Florida. A man in a white shirt and dark cap stands on the platform beside the train's open door, while other passengers walk along the platform. The train features a distinctive black and orange livery with a curved observation car. Overhead wires and a bright sky suggest a sunny day. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123630499

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1960 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: Tampa, Florida, 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: Serves requests for 1960s American rail travel footage in a Florida context, useful for transportation documentaries, history productions, or mid-century American life sequences.
Period detail: The train's black-and-orange livery with gold trim stripe and glazed dome/observation car are consistent with mid-century American passenger rail design; platform details support the 1960 metadata date.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from trackside at platform level, the footage has the observational quality of a traveler documenting the train's arrival rather than a staged or professional record.
What appears in frame: Passenger train with black upper body and orange-red lower panels, gold trim stripe, glazed dome car, station platform, overhead wires, blue sky, and a figure in white shirt and dark cap across all frames.
Film character: 8mm color stock shows warm saturation in the orange-red livery, moderate grain, and slight exposure variation typical of handheld home-movie shooting in bright outdoor conditions.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or transitional cutaway in sequences covering American rail travel, Florida history, or transportation infrastructure of the early 1960s.
Historical context: Passenger rail remained central to American intercity travel in 1960; dome cars were a prestige feature of long-distance services before highway and air expansion marginalized them.
Research note: Platform figures appear incidental and faces are not sharply resolved at this resolution, but use in identifiable contexts may warrant review under applicable likeness considerations.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1960s Florida train station footage, vintage American passenger rail platform, Tampa Florida 1960 transportation, or mid-century railroad home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel, then with Florida 1960s travel or transportation footage, then with mid-century American passenger rail station scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Home-movie frame showing a figure on the platform beside a mid-century passenger train with black-and-orange livery, Tampa, Florida, circa 1960. — Platform figure beside black-and-orange passenger train, Tampa station, 1960.

8mm home-movie frame showing platform activity beside a dome-car passenger train, Tampa, Florida, circa 1960. — Passenger train and platform figure, Tampa, 1960.

8mm color footage frame of a traveler walking on a station platform beside a dome-car passenger train, Tampa, Florida, circa 1960. — Figure walking along platform beside passenger train, Tampa station, 1960.

8mm home-movie frame showing passengers on a platform beside a dome-car passenger train at Tampa station, circa 1960. — Passengers on platform beside passenger train, Tampa station, 1960.

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