Silver Lake California-1966: Large Cargo Ship on Ocean

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSilver Lake, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 California

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Large Cargo Ship on Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a large cargo ship floating on a dark blue ocean, viewed from a high vantage point through tree branches. The footage, likely from Silver Lake, California, shows the vessel moving steadily across the water under a hazy sky, with a faint shoreline and utility poles visible below. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic mid-century coastal scene. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or 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: 124059839

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 1106 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,vacation
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: danville,illinois,california
Date: 1966 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: Silver Lake, 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 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary cutaways of a cargo ship offshore, coastal distance views, or travel-memory inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1960s coastal overlook, with a freighter on blue water, foreground trees, low shoreline structures, and utility poles below.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like an unstaged visitor-shot view from a hillside or window, holding briefly on a distant ship moving across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cargo ship, dark blue water, hazy sky, leafy foreground trees, a faint shoreline, utility poles, and black film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and gentle handheld instability that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for coastal travel, maritime activity, or a 1960s personal reel sequence.
Historical context: The view places maritime traffic within an everyday home-movie perspective, emphasizing distance, haze, and shoreline infrastructure rather than a formal port record.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but vessel identity, location, copyright, and any property rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1966 8mm cargo ship footage, vintage California coastal water view, home-movie freighter offshore, or hazy shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Silver Lake or 1966 California material, then broader vintage ship and shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm frame of a distant cargo ship on blue water, viewed through foreground trees from the listed Silver Lake, California reel. — A cargo ship crosses blue water beyond trees and a faint shoreline.

Distant freighter on blue water under a hazy sky, with foreground foliage and film-frame borders visible in the 1966 home-movie shot. — The ship appears farther right across the hazy blue water.

1966 8mm view of a distant cargo ship on blue water, framed by hillside trees, faint shoreline detail, and visible film gate edges. — The freighter sits near center frame beyond trees and low shoreline detail.

A distant cargo ship crosses blue water beyond dense foreground trees, with utility poles and a hazy shoreline visible in the 1966 reel frame. — Dense foliage frames the ship as utility poles mark the lower shoreline area.

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