Duluth Minnesota-1960: A Long Bridge Built On Pilings Spans A Body Of Water

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

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A Long Bridge Built On Pilings Spans A Body Of Water — Clip Details

DULUTH MINNESOTA-1960: A long, elevated bridge stretches across a wide body of water, its structure supported by numerous pilings. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the industrial design of the crossing under an overcast sky, with a grainy, monochrome aesthetic characteristic of vintage home movies. The camera remains steady, offering a distant view of the bridge's length and its connection to the shoreline, evoking a sense of mid-century infrastructure and regional history.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125305520

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: Supports 1960s documentary or editorial requests for Duluth-area transportation infrastructure, waterfront crossings, and mid-century regional establishing material.
Period detail: The elevated bridge, regular pilings, and grainy 8mm view may show mid-century highway or rail infrastructure seen from a distant shoreline or moving vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the bridge from across the water without staged action or promotional framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long bridge span, repeating vertical supports, open water, a pale overcast sky, dark frame edges, and shoreline structures at the far end.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted exposure, visible grain, dust specks, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short infrastructure cutaway, regional transition, waterfront insert, or quiet visual bridge between Duluth travel and industrial scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a large engineered crossing within a Great Lakes waterfront setting, emphasizing infrastructure and water access rather than human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property concerns for their intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960 Duluth 8mm bridge over water, Minnesota waterfront bridge home movie, pilings crossing bay, and vintage infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Duluth 1960 material, then broader 1960s bridge, harbor, waterway, or infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant 1960 Duluth view of a long bridge on pilings spanning open water under overcast light. — A long bridge stretches across the water in a distant 8mm view.

Distant Duluth bridge structure on pilings, with repeating supports visible across the water. — The camera holds on the bridge's supported span across the bay or river.

1960 Duluth home-movie frame showing the bridge's long low span and pilings over water. — The bridge continues across the frame, supported by a line of pilings.

Distant view of the Duluth bridge over water, with darker shoreline structures near the right edge. — Shoreline structures appear near the end of the bridge span.

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