Michigan USA-1960: Steamship Arriving at Dock with Car Driving on Ferry

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

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Steamship Arriving at Dock with Car Driving on Ferry — Clip Details

MICHIGAN USA-1960: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a steamship arriving at a dock, its dark smoke billowing from the stack against a gray sky. The ferry, viewed from behind, is positioned on a wet dock with visible rail tracks. The scene transitions to a classic white 1960s American car driving along the wooden deck, likely on a ferry ramp. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a sense of mid-century transportation 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: 125497349

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports archival requests for 1960s Michigan transportation footage, especially ferry docking, steamship approach, and mid-century car travel inserts.
Period detail: The white car styling, wooden ferry deck, rail tracks, and smoke-stack vessel may show mid-century Great Lakes ferry infrastructure around 1960.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the ferry arrival and a car moving aboard without staged action or formal coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smoke-stack ferry, dark exhaust, dock pilings, waterfront buildings, wet wooden deck, embedded rail tracks, a white car, and distant dock workers.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that retain the home-movie texture of the source film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a transportation insert, travel transition, ferry cutaway, or memory beat connecting water travel with automobile movement.
Historical context: The footage visually places automobile travel within ferry operations, with dock rails and waterfront structures suggesting an active working crossing.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no obvious logos appear, and copyright, location, likeness, and property issues remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s Michigan ferry footage, 8mm steamship docking, Great Lakes car ferry, vintage dock rail tracks, and home movie car boarding ferry.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1960 footage, then broader ferry, steamship, dock, and mid-century road travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a ferry or steamship near a dock, with dark exhaust above the stack and waterfront buildings behind it. — A smoke-stack vessel approaches or sits near the dock, framed from behind the ferry slip.

1960 Michigan 8mm frame with a rear view of a ferry or steamship at the dock, smoke drifting upward against a gray waterfront skyline. — The vessel remains centered at the dock as smoke rises from the stack.

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a white mid-century American car moving along a wet wooden ferry deck with embedded rail tracks and distant people. — A white car travels down the ferry deck beside rail tracks and dock equipment.

1960 Michigan 8mm frame with a white car driving on a ferry deck, rail tracks under it, and several distant people near dock structures. — The car continues across the deck, passing dockside rails and small figures at the edge.

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