Minnesota USA-1961: Ship Docked at Industrial Waterfront with Grain Elevator

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Minnesota

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Ship Docked at Industrial Waterfront with Grain Elevator — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a large ship docked at a bustling industrial waterfront in Minnesota. The vessel, a sturdy freighter with a dark hull and white stripe, is moored beside a towering grain elevator and a prominent gas holder. The scene, bathed in the faded colors of Super 8 film, shows the ship at rest in calm water under a cloudy sky, with distant city buildings visible across the harbor. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American maritime and industrial life.

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: 125497977

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: 1961 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: 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: 1961 Minnesota industrial waterfront footage for documentary inserts about Great Lakes shipping, grain handling, harbor infrastructure, or mid-century American industry.
Period detail: The frames show a docked freighter, grain-elevator-like structure, gas holder, masonry dock wall, and industrial harbor details consistent with the supplied 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot harbor viewpoint, observing ships and waterfront structures from across water and then closer beside a dock wall.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include moored freighters, calm harbor water, a tall industrial building, gas holder frame, grain-elevator-like structures, dock walls, masts, and cloudy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, industrial establishing insert, harbor transition, or quiet memory beat between broader Minnesota or maritime sequences.
Historical context: The footage places commercial shipping beside grain and utility infrastructure, showing how waterfront industry visually shaped a Minnesota harbor scene.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable vessel names are evident in the supplied frames, but copyright, vessel identification, and property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Minnesota harbor 8mm footage, industrial waterfront home movie, docked freighter grain elevator, and mid-century shipping cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1961 Minnesota waterfront material, then broader Great Lakes or industrial shipping footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota harbor view with a moored freighter, industrial buildings, and a gas holder frame across calm water. — Moored ship seen across an industrial waterfront with gas holder structure in the background.

Minnesota industrial waterfront in 1961, showing a docked ship, harbor water, tall building, and gas holder frame. — Docked vessel and industrial harbor structures viewed from across the water.

Close harbor view of a dark-hulled freighter beside a tall masonry dock wall in 1961 Minnesota footage. — Dark freighter moored tightly beside a large waterfront wall.

1961 Minnesota close view of a freighter moored along a masonry dock wall, with open water and low shoreline beyond. — Freighter at rest beside the dock wall, with open harbor water behind it.

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