Venice Italy-1960: Gondola Driver Wearing Blue And White Striped Shirt Gives Ride

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationVenice, Italy
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Italy

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Gondola Driver Wearing Blue And White Striped Shirt... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a gondolier in a blue and white striped shirt steering a gondola through Venice's canals. Passengers, including women in period attire, enjoy the ride as the gondola glides past historic buildings. The footage features classic Super 8 color, film grain, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century Venetian life.

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: 124933983

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: 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 1067 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: pope john xviii, color
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: italy
Date: 1960 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: Venice, Italy 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 Venice travel, tourism, gondola transport, and mid-century European vacation sequences in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The striped gondolier shirt, passenger clothing, sunglasses, and color 8mm look support a mid-century visitor-shot Venice setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged tourist perspective from inside or near a gondola as passengers look around during the canal ride.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a gondolier with an oar, seated passengers, canal water, gondola details, sunlit facades, sunglasses, and deep film shadows.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, handheld framing, high-contrast sunlight, and slight exposure variation typical of home-movie travel film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel transition, canal cutaway, or memory beat within a Venice or European vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows leisure travel by gondola in Venice, with visitors and the gondolier sharing the frame against canal-side architecture.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Venice 8mm gondola footage, gondolier in striped shirt, vintage Italy travel film, and home movie canal ride.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1960 Venice material, then broader gondola, canal, or European tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Venice home-movie frame showing a gondolier in a striped shirt standing with an oar near a gondola edge. — A gondolier stands in strong sunlight while holding an oar.

1960 Venice frame with a standing gondolier in a striped shirt holding an oar beside the gondola. — The gondolier shifts his stance while guiding the boat.

1960 Venice home-movie frame showing women passengers seated in a gondola during a canal ride. — Passengers sit low in the gondola as the boat moves through the canal.

1960 Venice frame showing gondola passengers on the canal with historic building facades in the background. — The gondola passes canal-side buildings and another boat.

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