San Francisco California-1963: Tanker Ship Floating On Ocean With Buoy

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Tanker Ship Floating On Ocean With Buoy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a large tanker ship floating on calm ocean waters off the coast of San Francisco. The footage, viewed through a film frame border, shows the vessel at a distance under a hazy purple sky, with gentle waves rippling in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century maritime scene. A small white buoy floats nearby, and faint silhouettes of other ships appear in the distance. This archival clip offers authentic 1960s coastal footage for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

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: 123776283

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 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: 1960s San Francisco Bay maritime footage for documentary or editorial sequences needing a distant tanker, open water, and period home-movie texture.
Period detail: The vessel, hazy color palette, and 8mm frame edges support a mid-century coastal view, with the 1963 date and San Francisco location taken from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a visitor or resident filming a ship offshore from a fixed shoreline vantage point rather than a staged maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large tanker, dark blue bay water, hazy purple sky, vertical film-frame borders, a small white buoy, and faint distant sail or ship shapes.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated blue-purple color, slight frame weave, and visible contact-frame borders that add physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime cutaway, coastal transition, industrial harbor insert, or quiet memory beat in a 1960s San Francisco sequence.
Historical context: The view places commercial shipping within a calm bay setting, showing how industrial vessels could appear in everyday coastal home-movie footage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but ship identity, underlying copyright, and any location-specific use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1963 San Francisco 8mm tanker, vintage bay shipping footage, 1960s ocean vessel home movie, or archival coastal water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1963 San Francisco waterfront footage, and finally with 1960s maritime or harbor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 San Francisco Bay home-movie frame showing a distant tanker on calm water beneath a hazy purple sky. — A tanker sits offshore on calm bay water, seen through a visible 8mm frame border.

Distant tanker on San Francisco Bay in 1963, with rippled water foreground and visible 8mm frame edges. — The tanker remains on the horizon line as small waves fill the foreground.

1963 San Francisco Bay frame with a tanker, small white buoy, and faint distant sail shapes on hazy water. — A small buoy appears in the water while the tanker sits in the distance.

1963 San Francisco Bay home-movie view of a distant tanker, rippled water, and a small white buoy. — The closing frame holds on the tanker and open water, with a small buoy visible below.

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