Martenique-1964: A Very Large Cruise Ship Is Seen Pulling Away From Shore On A

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Very Large Cruise Ship Is Seen Pulling Away From Shore... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a massive ocean liner pulling away from shore in Martinique. The clip shows the grand cruise ship from a distance, its dark hull and white superstructure visible against a cloudy sky. The vessel moves steadily across the water, its smokestacks and masts silhouetted as it departs. The footage has the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film, with a view framed by the camera's edge, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century travel and maritime adventure.

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: 123994666

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing an ocean liner departure, harbor travel atmosphere, or maritime transport cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The large passenger ship, dark hull, white decks, masts, and funnel may show mid-century cruise or ocean-liner travel as captured on 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot shoreline view, filmed from across the water as the ship moves through or away from the harbor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled harbor water, a large passenger ship, dark hull, white upper decks, funnel, masts, rigging lines, and pale sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm texture, visible grain, slight gate framing, muted color, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime travel insert, departure transition, cruise-era establishing beat, or memory cutaway in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure or passenger-ship travel in a harbor setting, without enough visible evidence to identify the vessel or exact location.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but vessel identity and location are not confirmed; copyright and any property or trademark questions need separate review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960s 8mm ocean liner, cruise ship leaving harbor, Martinique travel film, vintage passenger ship, and home movie harbor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel scenes, then with other 1964 Martinique or Caribbean harbor footage, then with ocean liner and cruise departure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large ocean liner or cruise ship appears beyond harbor water, with a dark hull, white decks, funnel, and masts visible on 8mm film. — Large passenger ship viewed from across the water as it moves through the harbor.

The ship fills more of the frame in a broadside view, showing stacked decks, a dark hull, funnel, masts, and water in the foreground. — Broadside view of the vessel with stacked decks and harbor water in front.

A closer 8mm frame shows the ship's midsection, white superstructure, dark hull, funnel, masts, and textured harbor water. — Closer view of the ship's midsection and funnel from a low waterfront angle.

The vessel continues across the frame, with its long dark hull, white decks, funnel, stern area, masts, and rippled water visible. — The long passenger ship passes across the frame with its stern area nearing view.

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