New York City-1958: Large Number Of Soldiers Preparing For A Mission From Port

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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Large Number Of Soldiers Preparing For A Mission From Port — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures soldiers in military uniforms preparing for a mission at a bustling port. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows men boarding a ship under a clear blue sky, with industrial structures and distant mountains in the background. Smoke rises from a nearby facility, and military vehicles are parked along the dock. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this historical moment. The scene conveys a sense of organized activity and anticipation as troops gather for transport.

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: 124558328

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: New York City, New York, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s documentary or museum edits needing home-movie footage of uniformed soldiers gathering at a port for transport.
Period detail: Visible clues include mid-century military uniforms, a dockside vessel, flags, industrial waterfront structures, and the 1958 New York City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from behind a window or frame, catching soldiers in informal movement rather than staged formation.
What appears in frame: The frames show uniformed men, ship railings, dock equipment, flags, open sky, distant shoreline or hills, smoke, and dark window-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, soft focus, color fading, handheld framing, and brief occlusions that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for troop movement, port departure, military logistics, or Cold War-era atmosphere.
Historical context: The clip visually places military personnel within a busy waterfront transport setting without confirming the mission, unit, ship name, or destination.
Research note: People and military activity are visible, so likeness, context, and institutional sensitivities should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm soldiers at port, New York City military transport home movie, troops boarding ship, and waterfront Army footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 New York City waterfront material, then broader clips of soldiers, ports, ships, and transport.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York City home-movie frame with a uniform cap in close foreground and a bright dockside background partly obscured. — A soldier's cap fills the foreground as the camera looks through dark frame borders toward the port.

Portside 8mm frame showing a covered object, ship or dock railings, poles, and distant hills or shoreline under blue sky. — A covered object and dockside structures appear near a vessel, with distant terrain beyond the port.

1958 New York City port scene with uniformed soldiers clustered near a ship railing, flag, smoke, and distant shoreline. — Soldiers stand and move near a vessel railing while smoke rises beyond the waterfront.

Close 8mm view of soldiers at a New York City port in 1958, with caps, ship railings, a flag, and waterfront background visible. — Several soldiers stand close to the camera beside a vessel, with a flag and dock railings behind them.

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