San Francisco California-1968: Boat Passes Under Steel Bridge

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

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Boat Passes Under Steel Bridge — Clip Details

Shot from a moving boat in Vancouver BC in 1968, this vintage 8mm film captures a view through a window frame as the vessel passes under a red steel truss bridge. The camera looks upward at the bridge's intricate structure against a clear blue sky, with the boat's red and white railings and stacked orange life vests visible in the foreground. The scene transitions to a wide shot of a long barge floating on calm blue water, with a rugged, tree-dotted hillside in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-1960s travel memory.

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: 124632804

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 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 Vancouver travel, harbor, and boat-perspective sequences needing real 8mm waterway footage for documentary inserts or period atmosphere.
Period detail: The red steel truss bridge, boat railings, orange life vests, and saturated 8mm color support a late-1960s visitor view of Vancouver waterways.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger viewpoint, looking through boat structure while passing under a bridge and then watching a barge against the shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red truss bridge, boat railing, orange life vests, window framing, blue water, a long barge, rocky hillsides, and patches of trees.
Film character: The footage has strong 8mm color saturation, visible grain, slight softness, and handheld framing that give the water and bridge views a home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor cutaway, travel transition, boat-window insert, or memory beat between wider Vancouver or coastal sequences.
Historical context: The imagery reflects leisure or passenger travel through a working coastal waterway, with bridge infrastructure and a barge visible from the boat.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private interiors are visible, but users should still review location, vessel, and copyright status for their intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Vancouver boat footage, 8mm harbor view, red bridge from boat, coastal barge cutaway, and vintage Canada water travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Vancouver waterfront clips, then broader boat, bridge, harbor, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Vancouver boat view with red railing, orange life vests, and the underside of a steel truss bridge against blue sky. — The boat passes beneath a red steel truss bridge, with railings and life vests in the foreground.

1968 Vancouver waterway view showing a low barge crossing blue water below a rocky, tree-dotted hillside. — A low barge moves across calm water with a rugged shoreline in the background.

1968 Vancouver boat-window view of a barge on blue water, backed by hills and scattered shoreline trees. — Dark window framing encloses a waterway view of a barge and hillside.

1968 Vancouver harbor view from a boat, with a low barge on the water and rounded hills beyond the shoreline. — The shot holds on a broad water view with a barge and rolling hills beyond.

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