Montego Bay Jamaica-1964: Large Work Ship With Radar Floats In Harbor On Clear Day

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationMontego Bay, Jamaica
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Work Ship With Radar Floats In Harbor On Clear Day — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1964, showing a large industrial work ship floating in the water on a clear day. The footage, captured on Super 8 film, features a prominent naval or research vessel with a large radar dish and communication arrays. The ship is seen from a distance, with hazy mountains in the background under a bright sky. The image has a distinct blue color cast and visible film grain, characteristic of 1960s home movie footage. The camera remains relatively steady, capturing the vessel as it floats calmly in the harbor.

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: 123994781

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 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: Montego Bay, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Caribbean harbor or maritime industry requests needing a brief editorial cutaway of a large radar-equipped vessel in Montego Bay.
Period detail: The distant ship, mast arrays, radar dish, 8mm color, and blue cast support a mid-1960s travel-home-movie view, with the 1964 Montego Bay setting supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from shore or another vessel, holding on the ship as a notable harbor sight rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large work ship, radar dish, communication masts, antenna structures, calm water, hazy mountains, bright sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, blue color shift, light exposure variation, and contact-print frame edges that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short maritime cutaway, travel insert, harbor transition, or contextual beat between broader Jamaica or 1960s industry scenes.
Historical context: The view places a technical or industrial vessel in a Caribbean harbor landscape, suggesting port activity without identifying the ship or its function beyond what is visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any property or operational permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 Montego Bay harbor 8mm footage, 1960s Jamaica ship cutaway, radar vessel in Caribbean port, and vintage home movie maritime scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Montego Bay harbor material, then broader Caribbean port, ship, water, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Montego Bay home-movie frame showing a large ship with radar and mast structures in a harbor, with mountains in the distance. — A large radar-equipped vessel sits in the harbor with hazy mountains beyond.

A distant radar-equipped vessel in Montego Bay harbor, filmed in 1964 with blue-tinted 8mm color and mountains behind it. — The ship remains centered, with radar and antenna structures silhouetted against the sky.

Montego Bay harbor frame from 1964 showing the vessel’s radar dish, masts, and upper deck against a hazy mountain backdrop. — The camera holds on the vessel’s radar and communication structures from a distance.

Final 1964 Montego Bay frame showing the ship partly out of view, with antenna masts, harbor water, and hazy mountains visible. — The vessel moves partly out of frame, leaving masts, deck edges, water, and mountains visible.

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