Silver Lake California-1966: Massive White Passenger Ship With Several Levels

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

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Massive White Passenger Ship With Several Levels — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a massive white passenger ship docked at a coastal port. The multi-level vessel, featuring a prominent black smokestack, sits calmly on the water with a backdrop of palm trees and low-rise buildings. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a film projector, shows slight grain and natural color fading typical of Super 8 footage from the era. A partial view of a person's head appears in the foreground, suggesting a personal perspective from a nearby vantage point. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and maritime travel.

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: 124060767

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: 1960s California home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum requests for passenger ship, harbor, and mid-century travel cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1960s passenger vessel with stacked decks, a dark smokestack, palm-lined shoreline, and low-rise waterfront buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot from a nearby vantage point, with a partial head at the edge reinforcing an unstaged home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large white passenger ship, dark hull band, black smokestack, calm harbor water, palm trees, shoreline buildings, dock structures, and film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, faded color, dust marks, and projector-edge framing give the clip recognizable physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, maritime travel cutaway, harbor transition, or memory beat within a 1960s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for leisure travel or waterfront observation in the 1960s without confirming the vessel identity or specific port activity.
Research note: Human review should note a partial person in the foreground and possible vessel markings or logos; copyright, likeness, and trademark concerns require separate checks.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm passenger ship at dock, California harbor home movie, white ocean liner smokestack, and vintage waterfront travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 California waterfront material, then broader passenger ship and harbor travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 California 8mm frame showing a large white passenger ship at a waterfront, with palm trees behind it and a partial viewer's head in the foreground. — A large white passenger ship sits docked across calm harbor water, partly obscured by the edge of a viewer's head.

1966 California 8mm frame with a white multi-level passenger ship, dark hull band, black smokestack, and palm-lined shoreline in the background. — The passenger ship remains centered at the dock, with palm trees and low buildings along the shoreline.

Soft 1966 8mm view of a large docked passenger ship on harbor water, with a hazy row of palm trees and buildings behind it. — The vessel is seen in a softer, grainy frame with its decks stretching across the waterfront.

Overexposed 1966 California 8mm frame showing the white passenger ship closer in view, with deck windows, a black smokestack, and palm trees behind. — A brighter closer frame shows the ship's rows of windows and upper decks against the palm-lined shore.

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