Milwaukee Wisconsin-1964: Grainy 8mm Film Clip Of A Ship Leaving The City Port

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Wisconsin

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Grainy 8mm Film Clip Of A Ship Leaving The City Port — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this grainy home movie captures a large ship departing from a city port in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the vessel silhouetted against a purple-tinged sky, with power lines and utility poles in the foreground. The grainy texture and muted colors evoke a nostalgic, vintage feel, typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. The ship moves slowly across the water, suggesting a calm departure from the industrial waterfront.

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: 125307258

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 requests needing 1960s Milwaukee harbor or Great Lakes industrial waterfront footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial inserts.
Period detail: The frames show overhead utility lines, pole silhouettes, a low waterfront structure, and a large vessel, all consistent with a mid-1960s port view from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of a visitor-shot or resident-shot view, filmed from behind a window or frame rather than from a staged harbor vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large ship on water, utility poles, overhead wires, a low waterfront building, distant shoreline, dark window-frame borders, and grainy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, exposure variation, and fixed framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief industrial harbor cutaway, a transition into Milwaukee waterfront material, or a memory beat for 1960s travel and transport.
Historical context: The view places a large vessel against an urban waterfront where transportation, utilities, and shoreline industry share the same visual field.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, vessel identification, and property-context review may still be needed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 8mm Milwaukee port footage, Great Lakes ship leaving harbor, grainy home movie waterfront, and industrial shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Milwaukee 1964 material, then with Great Lakes shipping, port, waterfront, and industrial transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Milwaukee port view with a large ship on the water, utility poles, wires, and a dark window-frame edge in the foreground. — A large vessel passes behind foreground wires and utility poles along the Milwaukee waterfront.

A large vessel near the Milwaukee waterfront appears behind utility poles and wires, framed by dark edges of the filmed viewpoint. — The ship remains partly silhouetted behind utility lines and a dark vertical frame.

Grainy 8mm frame of a large ship at the Milwaukee port, with foreground utility lines, poles, and a small waterfront structure. — Foreground utility lines cross a soft, grainy view of the vessel and shoreline.

Final frame shows the large vessel farther along the Milwaukee waterfront, partly obscured by poles, wires, and dark frame borders. — The vessel continues along the harbor view behind poles, wires, and dark framing.

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