San Francisco California-1968: Woman Photographing Sea and Bridge from Ferry

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Woman Photographing Sea and Bridge from Ferry — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a passenger on a ferry in Vancouver, BC, looking out over the blue sea. A woman in a red jacket and white hat uses a camera to photograph the distant shoreline and a long bridge spanning the water. The footage shows the gentle motion of the ferry, with the cityscape and hills visible across the bay under a clear sky. The warm color palette and film grain evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century 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: 124632678

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 1126 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: parade,donner pass
Reel-level year note: 1967-1968
Reel-level location note: reno,spokane,vancouver
Date: 1968 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: San Francisco, 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 documentary or editorial sequences needing ferry-travel views in Vancouver with a passenger photographing open water and distant shoreline.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s leisure travel details through the woman's red outerwear, white hat, handheld camera, ferry viewpoint and saturated 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a passenger pausing at the rail to photograph the bay, giving the scene a casual traveler-shot perspective rather than a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, distant hills, shoreline buildings, a long bridge, ferry deck edges, a woman in a red jacket and white hat, and a red-and-white vessel or structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, gate edges, slight softness, color shift, handheld ferry motion and exposure variation that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, harbor transition, ferry cutaway, memory beat, or visual bridge between city shoreline and waterborne movement.
Historical context: The footage places a private traveler within a public harbor setting, showing mid-century sightseeing behavior against Vancouver-area water, hills and infrastructure.
Research note: People and possible logos or vessel markings are visible, so likeness and trademark review may be needed separately from underlying film copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm Vancouver ferry footage, woman taking photos on boat, blue harbor water, distant bridge, and Canadian home-movie travel scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Vancouver or British Columbia ferry views, then broader 1960s coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Vancouver ferry view over blue water toward a distant bridge and shoreline, with a passenger partly visible at the frame edge. — A ferry passenger looks out across the water toward hills and a distant bridge.

On a 1968 Vancouver ferry, a woman in red outerwear and a white hat photographs the bay and distant shoreline. — A woman photographs the distant shoreline from the ferry.

1968 Vancouver-area harbor view from a ferry, showing blue water, a low shoreline, hills and a red-and-white vessel or structure. — The ferry passes a low shoreline with hills and a red-and-white vessel or structure.

Vancouver-area ferry view from 1968 showing open blue water, distant hills and a red-and-white vessel or structure along the shore. — A wide harbor view shows open water, hills and a red-and-white vessel or structure near shore.

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