Italy-1962: Blue Ocean Water And Brown Tug Boat On A Bright Sunny Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Blue Ocean Water And Brown Tug Boat On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal scene in Italy. The footage shows a vast blue ocean under a bright, sunny sky, with a distant shoreline visible. A brown tugboat moves across the water, creating gentle ripples. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and subtle grain, with slight scratches and dust marks adding to its authentic archival quality. The perspective suggests a view from a moving vessel, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125017286

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 1712 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: vatican visit to pope,lg fountain
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: rome,italy
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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Italy maritime or coastal travel edits needing brief home-movie sea views and a small working boat cutaway.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1960s coastal travel from a vessel, with distant shoreline, open blue water, and a tugboat seen through an 8mm home-movie lens.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from another boat, lingering on horizon, coastline, and passing harbor traffic.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue sea, pale sky, distant coastline, white surf line, dark frame edges, a small tugboat, wake, and film dust.
Film character: Soft focus, blue color shift, light grain, handheld framing, and gate edges give the scan a clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, coastal establishing beat, or quiet memory cutaway.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure or transit viewing of an Italian coastline alongside working watercraft, without enough detail to identify the port or vessel.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright and any vessel or location identification should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Italy 8mm coastline, vintage home movie ocean, Italian coastal water, tugboat at sea, and 1960s maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Italy 1962 coastal material, then broader vintage maritime and watercraft scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Italy 8mm frame showing open blue water, a pale sky, and a low distant coastline through visible gate edges. — Distant shoreline and open sea framed by the 8mm film gate.

1962 Italy coastal view with blue water, faint land on the horizon, and visible film wear from the scanned 8mm source. — Low coastline across calm blue water beneath a pale sky.

1962 Italy 8mm frame with a distant coastal strip, white surf, blue water, and soft handheld home-movie framing. — White surf line traces the distant coast across the water.

1962 Italy 8mm frame showing a dark brown tugboat crossing sunlit blue water with wake and coastline beyond. — A small tugboat passes across the water, leaving a wake behind it.

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