Duluth Minnesota-1960: A Big Cruise Ship That Is Getting Ready To Take Off With

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationDuluth, Minnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Duluth Minnesota

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A Big Cruise Ship That Is Getting Ready To Take Off With — Clip Details

DULUTH MINNESOTA-1960: A massive passenger liner with a white superstructure and dark hull sits docked at a port, its smokestack emitting a plume of dark smoke. Classic American automobiles from the early 1960s, including a light blue sedan and a dark pickup truck, are parked along the waterfront. The footage, captured on 8mm film, shows a static view of the ship and the surrounding industrial waterfront under an overcast sky, conveying a sense of mid-century maritime travel and nostalgia.

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: 125305512

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 1028 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: mother,sioux falls, pushmobile, duluth in winter, clarence
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: duluth,minnesota
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: Duluth, Minnesota, 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 documentary or educational requests needing 1960s Duluth waterfront footage with a large passenger ship and period automobiles.
Period detail: The white ship superstructure, dark hull, smoking stack, and early-1960s cars support the stated 1960 Duluth setting.
Home-movie behavior: The static visitor-shot framing records a waterfront sight from shore without staged action or visible passengers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large docked passenger ship, smoke from a stack, parked cars, a waterfront road, utility poles, open water, and a bridge span.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation typical of home-movie reversal film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a port establishing insert, maritime travel cutaway, or quiet transition into a mid-century Great Lakes sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows a large ship at an industrial waterfront, with cars and shoreline infrastructure indicating everyday public viewing of maritime activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but ship identity, vessel rights, location permissions, and copyright should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1960 Duluth harbor 8mm footage, Great Lakes passenger ship, docked liner with smoke, or vintage waterfront cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Duluth 1960 harbor views, then broader Great Lakes ship and waterfront transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Duluth waterfront view of a large docked passenger ship with smoke from its stack and period cars along the shore. — A large passenger ship sits docked beside parked cars on the Duluth waterfront.

Large passenger ship at the Duluth waterfront in 1960, with a dark hull, white upper decks, smoke, and parked automobiles. — The ship remains still at the dock as smoke rises above the waterfront.

Duluth-area waterfront view from 1960 showing a long bridge span over open water through a soft 8mm frame. — A long bridge spans the water in a separate waterfront view.

A long bridge over open water appears in the 1960 Duluth waterfront footage, framed by visible 8mm gate edges. — The clip cuts to a distant bridge over the water under gray light.

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