Silver Lake California-1966: A Passenger Steamship Docked At Harbor

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

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A Passenger Steamship Docked At Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a large white passenger steamship docked at a harbor in Silver Lake, California. The vessel, with its prominent black smokestack and multiple decks, is viewed from across the water, framed by a dark border suggesting a window or handheld camera. Palm trees and low-rise buildings line the shore under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American coastal scene. A partial view of a person's head appears in the lower-left corner in later frames, indicating the perspective of a passenger filming the ship.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124060750

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: Useful for 1960s California harbor or passenger-ship requests needing documentary cutaways from amateur 8mm footage.
Period detail: The multi-deck white vessel, dark funnel, waterfront buildings, and palm-lined shore may show mid-1960s coastal travel infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot from across water or through a dark window edge, with a head briefly entering the lower frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a docked passenger ship, black smokestack, calm harbor water, piers, low waterfront buildings, palms, haze, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and gentle handheld drift typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a harbor establishing insert, travel transition, ship cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a large passenger vessel in a developed waterfront setting, with palms and shoreline buildings suggesting California leisure or transit context.
Research note: Human review should check vessel markings or logos and incidental likeness from the visible head; copyright, likeness, and trademark issues are separate.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1966 8mm passenger steamship docked at California harbor, vintage cruise ship, waterfront home movie, or 1960s harbor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel harbor shots, then other 1966 Silver Lake or California waterfront clips, then broader passenger-ship travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm view of a white passenger ship docked across harbor water in the reported Silver Lake, California clip. — A large white passenger vessel sits docked across calm water, framed by dark film or window edges.

Reported 1966 California harbor view with a white passenger vessel, dark funnel, piers, and palm trees behind the waterfront. — The ship remains centered across the harbor, with low buildings and palms visible through a soft, hazy frame.

Soft 8mm frame of the reported 1966 Silver Lake, California harbor scene, showing a docked white ship across the water. — A slightly shifted view shows the long side of the vessel, its decks, and the palm-lined shore beyond.

1966 8mm harbor view with a docked passenger ship and an incidental foreground head partly blocking the lower frame. — The vessel is still visible across the water as a passenger or bystander’s head enters the lower foreground.

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