Tampa Florida USA-1960: Waterfront Boats Docked Sunshine Blue Water Building

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

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Waterfront Boats Docked Sunshine Blue Water Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day at a Tampa, Florida waterfront. The footage shows a long white building along the harbor, a white sailboat docked near a large warehouse, and a large cargo ship with multiple masts. The scenes unfold under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, viewed through the dark frame of a window or boat porthole. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century maritime activity and waterfront architecture.

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: 123631015

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: Suitable for 1960s Florida maritime documentary segments, travel-film montages, or commercial productions needing authentic mid-century harbor atmosphere.
Period detail: The repetitive white dock-shed facade and large multi-masted cargo vessel with visible loading cranes are consistent with mid-20th-century American commercial port infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a moving boat on the water, this reflects a tourist or boat-owner's instinct to film the harbor passing by rather than from a fixed shore vantage.
What appears in frame: Long white waterfront shed with arched bays, a moored white sailboat, a large dark-hulled cargo freighter with loading cranes, calm blue harbor water, scattered cumulus clouds, and dark porthole-edge vignetting.
Film character: Warm 8mm color saturation and moderate grain are compounded by dark-edge vignetting consistent with shooting through a porthole or hatch; one frame carries a visible film scratch.
Edit role: Works as a location-establishing shot or water-level cutaway insert for a 1960s Florida waterfront sequence, suited to a passenger or traveler POV narrative.
Historical context: The co-presence of a working cargo freighter and a moored sailboat reflects Tampa's active dual-use waterfront, characteristic of mid-century Gulf Coast port cities.
Research note: At least one small distant figure is visible in early frames; waterfront structures may be commercial or public property; no legible logos; copyright rests with the original filmmaker.
Research search match: 1960s Florida harbor footage, mid-century cargo ship dock, vintage Tampa waterfront 8mm film, American port sailing vessel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel showing Tampa waterfront activity; then 1960s Florida location footage; then mid-century American commercial harbor and dock scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame, circa 1960, Tampa harbor: long white waterfront shed with repetitive arched bays and a small distant figure, seen from the water. — Tampa harbor waterfront shed viewed from a passing boat, c. 1960.

8mm frame circa 1960, Tampa harbor: a white sailing vessel tied up alongside a large white warehouse shed, viewed from water level with dark porthole vignetting. — White sailboat docked at a Tampa warehouse pier, c. 1960.

8mm frame circa 1960, Tampa harbor: large cargo freighter with loading cranes moored at a pier, low dock buildings behind, cumulus clouds above; film scratch visible in upper frame. — Cargo freighter at Tampa dock with loading cranes, c. 1960.

8mm frame circa 1960, Tampa harbor: same large cargo freighter with dark red-brown hull and loading cranes, waterfront buildings visible behind under cumulus clouds, angle shifted as boat passes. — Cargo freighter at Tampa harbor, shifted angle, c. 1960.

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