Kingston Jamaica-1964: Small Boat Rolls In Rough Seas Near Large Ship

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationKingston, Jamaica
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Kingston Jamaica

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Small Boat Rolls In Rough Seas Near Large Ship — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a small white boat navigating rough seas near a large ship in Kingston, Jamaica. The footage shows the boat rolling in turbulent waves, its striped awning flapping in the wind as a crew member in a white uniform stands at the helm. The dark hull of the large vessel looms in the background, its circular portholes visible against the blue water. The scene conveys a sense of maritime adventure and the raw power of the ocean, with authentic film grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 footage from the era.

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: 123994390

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 1839 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: san juan puerto rico,kingston,montego bay,jamaica
Date: 1964 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: Kingston, Jamaica 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 Kingston maritime home-movie footage for documentaries needing a rough-seas small-boat cutaway beside a larger vessel.
Period detail: The small open boat, striped canvas awning, white-uniformed crew, and 8mm color stock may show mid-1960s harbor travel details.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby vessel or dock as the boat rolls through choppy water, giving an unstaged visitor perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motor launch, striped canopy, crew figures, choppy blue-green water, dark ship hull, portholes, rigging lines, and a small flag.
Film character: The clip has 8mm color grain, soft focus, exposure bloom on white surfaces, gate edges, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief maritime insert, harbor transition, travel-memory beat, or visual cutaway for sea conditions in Kingston.
Historical context: The frames show small-craft movement near a larger ship, suggesting everyday harbor activity without identifying a specific vessel or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no readable logos or private property are evident from the frames.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1964 Kingston Jamaica boat, 8mm rough seas harbor, small launch near ship, and vintage Caribbean home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Jamaica travel scenes, then 1964 Kingston harbor material, then broader small-boat, rough-sea, and ship-side footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Kingston, Jamaica 8mm frame of a small white boat moving through rough water near the dark side of a larger ship. — The bow of a small white boat rides through chop beside a larger vessel's porthole-lined hull.

A white launch with a striped canopy rolls in Kingston harbor water, with a dark porthole-lined ship hull behind it. — The boat passes side-on, its canopy stretched above the deck as waves break along the hull.

Broadside 8mm view of the small Kingston boat under a striped awning as crew figures remain visible in rough harbor water. — The launch rides low across the frame, with crew visible at both ends beneath and beside the striped canopy.

The stern end of the white boat rolls through rough Kingston harbor water near a dark ship hull, with a small flag visible at the bow area. — The boat continues past the camera, rolling in the wake with the larger vessel still filling the background.

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