Michigan USA-1960: Steamship Docking at Wooden Pier with Railroad Tracks

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

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Steamship Docking at Wooden Pier with Railroad Tracks — Clip Details

MICHIGAN USA-1960: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a large steamship approaching a wooden dock with railroad tracks. The ship, emitting dark smoke from its stack, moves slowly through the water as it prepares to dock. The view is framed by the dark structure of the pier, with industrial buildings and a distant shoreline visible in the background. The footage shows the ship's stern and deck lights, with an American flag flying atop the bridge. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century maritime travel and industrial activity.

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: 125497345

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 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: Useful for requests needing 1960s Michigan maritime home-movie footage of a large passenger or vehicle ferry approaching a dock for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The wooden pier, embedded rail tracks, steamship profile, smoke stack, deck lights, and small shoreline buildings support a mid-century Great Lakes travel or working-waterfront setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a sheltered pier or dock structure as the vessel approaches, giving the clip the observational feel of a visitor filming an arrival rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large steamship, dark smoke from the stack, wooden dock planking, rail tracks, pier posts, water, shoreline buildings, and an American flag.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and steady handheld framing that preserve the texture of scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a waterfront insert, transport transition, industrial cutaway, or brief memory beat for mid-century travel and Great Lakes maritime activity.
Historical context: The scene shows a large vessel maneuvering near a dock, suggesting routine passenger or vehicle movement along an industrial shoreline without identifying a specific route or port.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any vessel, location, or property identification before final use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1960s Michigan steamship docking, 8mm Great Lakes ferry footage, vintage wooden pier with rail tracks, and home movie waterfront arrival.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Michigan 1960 footage, and then with maritime, ferry, dock, rail, or industrial waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a large steamship nearing a wooden pier with embedded rail tracks, water, and shoreline buildings visible. — Steamship approaches the dock from behind dark pier framing.

1960 Michigan home-movie frame of a large vessel approaching a dock, framed by pier structure with rail tracks leading toward the water. — The vessel continues toward the wooden landing area.

Large steamship in 1960 Michigan footage nearing a dock entrance, with rail tracks on wooden planks and industrial shoreline beyond. — The ship closes distance with the dock as wake gathers at the stern.

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing the vessel aligned near the pier, with deck lights visible and dark smoke rising above the stack. — Dark smoke rises as the vessel aligns near the pier.

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