Michigan USA-1960: Boat Passing Through Lock System With Open Gates

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Michigan

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Boat Passing Through Lock System With Open Gates — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a view from a boat passing through a large lock system in Michigan. The clip shows massive concrete lock gates opening to reveal calm water beyond, with a crane visible on the left structure and faint smoke rising in the distance. The final frame shifts to a wide shot of a choppy lake bordered by trees, with a person in a hat partially visible in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective of mid-century waterway infrastructure.

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: 125497057

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 2039 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan
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: Michigan, 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: 1960s Michigan 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational requests about inland waterways, locks, boating, and mid-century public infrastructure.
Period detail: The large lock gates, crane, muted color stock, and boat-level viewpoint support a circa-1960 home-movie record of Michigan waterway infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to be held from a moving boat, preserving an unstaged visitor or passenger perspective as the vessel approaches open lock gates and exits toward open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark concrete lock walls, open gate sections, a crane, rippling water, distant smoke or haze, shoreline trees, boat railing, and a partial person in a hat.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, rounded frame edges, and handheld instability that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert or transition for travel by water, infrastructure access, canal navigation, or a memory beat moving from enclosed lock space to open lake.
Historical context: The clip visually documents recreational or passenger movement through a substantial lock system without establishing the specific lock name or any operational event.
Research note: People are minimally visible, including a partial foreground figure, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, music, or obvious private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960 Michigan 8mm lock gates, home movie boat through canal lock, vintage Great Lakes waterway, and mid-century boating infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1960 Michigan boating footage, then broader lock, canal, harbor, and inland waterway scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing dark lock walls, open gates, a crane on the left structure, and rippling water in the channel. — A boat approaches open lock gates with a crane visible on the left side of the structure.

Boat-facing view through a Michigan lock system, with massive dark gate sections, calm water, and faint smoke or haze beyond. — The lock gates remain open, revealing water and a hazy shoreline or vessel in the distance.

1960 home-movie frame from a boat inside or near the lock, showing dark walls, a crane, open water, and soft film grain. — The boat passes between large lock walls as the open channel appears ahead.

Michigan 8mm frame looking across choppy water toward a wooded shoreline, with a boat rail and partial hatted passenger at the right edge. — After the lock sequence, the view opens to choppy water and a distant tree-lined shore.

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