Versailles France-1962: Tour Boat Passes By With Passengers Aboard

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationVersailles, France
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Versailles France

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Tour Boat Passes By With Passengers Aboard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a white tour boat gliding along a canal in Versailles, France. Passengers fill both the covered lower deck and the open upper deck, many seated at tables with red tablecloths. The boat’s distinctive tubular glass roof reflects the surroundings as it moves through the water, creating a nostalgic slice of mid-century leisure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124811495

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 1710 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: convention,parade
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: cannes,france,nice
Date: 1962 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: Versailles, France 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 European leisure, canal travel, and visitor-shot transportation inserts in documentary, museum, educational, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The white tour boat, red table settings, open upper seating, and curved transparent roof may show mid-century excursion design and tourist leisure in Versailles.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, watching passengers seated and standing as the tour boat passes through the canal without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a white passenger boat, curved glass canopy, open upper deck, seated passengers, red table coverings, canal water, and stone embankment.
Film character: The 8mm film texture shows soft grain, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that support an authentic home-movie archive feel.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short travel cutaway, leisure insert, location transition, or memory beat within a sequence about France, tourism, or 1960s daily life.
Historical context: The scene documents public sightseeing activity on the water, with passengers gathered in a shared excursion setting rather than a formal event.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, audible music, or private property are indicated.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 8mm Versailles tour boat, 1960s France canal passengers, vintage sightseeing boat footage, and European home movie travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1962 Versailles or France travel footage, then broader 1960s tourism, boats, canals, and leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Versailles home-movie frame showing a white canal tour boat with passengers under a curved glass roof and on an open upper deck. — A white sightseeing boat passes along the canal with passengers visible on both decks.

1962 Versailles frame of a white sightseeing boat passing by, with passengers visible through the transparent canopy and along the top deck. — Passengers sit inside the covered cabin and on the upper deck as the boat moves past.

1962 Versailles home-movie frame with the tour boat closer in view, showing its curved roof, side windows, passengers, and canal setting. — The boat passes closer to camera, revealing its glass canopy and rows of passengers.

1962 Versailles frame showing the side of a white tour boat, its transparent roof, rows of passengers, and rippled canal water below. — The side of the sightseeing boat fills the frame as passengers remain visible through the canopy.

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