Vancouver Bc Canada-1968: A Large Cargo Ship Passes Under Bridge Then Tugboat On Water

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Large Cargo Ship Passes Under Bridge Then Tugboat On Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a maritime scene from Vancouver, BC. The clip opens with a large cargo ship passing under a suspension bridge, its wake churning the water. The view then shifts to a distant shoreline with low-rise buildings and hills, seen from a moving vessel. A small tugboat appears in the middle distance, navigating the bay. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a handheld perspective, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century coastal transportation and urban waterfronts.

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: 124633045

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 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: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 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 1960s documentary edits needing Vancouver-area maritime transportation, harbor travel, or home-movie waterfront atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s harbor infrastructure, a suspension bridge, low waterfront buildings, and hillside development seen from the water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vessel, with the camera drifting between a passing cargo ship and the distant shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large cargo ship, suspension bridge structure, open blue water, shoreline buildings, hills, vessel wake, and a small tugboat.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge shadows that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or memory beat for coastal transportation in the 1960s.
Historical context: The footage documents a waterfront view where commercial shipping, small working boats, and urban shoreline buildings share the same coastal space.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright in the film, possible distant people or vessel occupants, and identifiable bridge or shoreline property if used commercially.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1968 8mm Vancouver harbor footage, cargo ship under bridge, tugboat on bay, or Canadian waterfront home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Vancouver or 1968 waterfront material, then broader 1960s maritime and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Vancouver-area home-movie frame showing a large cargo ship moving under a suspension bridge with wake on the water. — A large cargo ship passes beneath a suspension bridge, leaving wake in the bay.

1968 Vancouver waterfront view from the water, with low buildings along the shore and hills in the background. — The camera looks across the bay toward shoreline buildings and hills.

Vancouver-area 1968 home-movie view of a distant shoreline, low waterfront buildings, hills, and rippled bay water. — Low waterfront buildings sit below hills across the bay.

1968 Vancouver-area harbor frame with a small tugboat on open water and distant shoreline buildings below hills. — A small tugboat moves across the bay in front of the distant waterfront.

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