Minnesota USA-1961: Ship Docked At Stone Pier And Blue Ocean View

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

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Ship Docked At Stone Pier And Blue Ocean View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a large ship docked beside a weathered stone pier under a bright blue sky. The footage, likely from Minnesota, shows the vessel's dark hull with a white stripe, its superstructure rising against the horizon. The scene transitions to a wide view of the open blue ocean, with distant ships visible on the calm water and rocky shoreline in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic 1960s home movie quality, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and maritime nostalgia.

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: 125497980

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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing Midwestern maritime, lakeside travel, or harbor cutaway footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The dark ship hull, stone pier, simple horizon views, and faded color stock may show early-1960s recreational or travel filming around a large lake or harbor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, shifting from a docked ship at close range to a simple horizon view from shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark-hulled ship, weathered stone pier, blue water, pale sky, distant vessels, shoreline rocks, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, exposure variation, dust specks, and contact-print edge artifacts.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, lakeshore establishing beat, or memory cutaway within a 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The views suggest mid-century leisure or travel documentation near open water, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific harbor or vessel.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, vessel identity, location, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 8mm ship at pier, Minnesota home movie harbor, vintage lake horizon, 1960s maritime travel footage, and rocky shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Minnesota or 1961 lakefront material, then with broader 1960s ships, piers, and shoreline views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 8mm frame showing a dark-hulled ship with a white stripe docked next to a weathered stone pier, likely in Minnesota. — A docked ship sits close to a tall stone pier, with the vessel's dark bow filling the foreground.

Wide 8mm view of blue open water, a distant vessel near the horizon, and pale shoreline rocks in the foreground. — The view opens to blue water and a distant vessel, with rocks along the lower edge of the frame.

1961 home-movie frame of a broad blue water horizon with tiny distant vessels and rocks along the shoreline. — A steady shoreline view shows open water, a low horizon, and small vessels in the distance.

Wide 8mm shoreline view, likely Minnesota, with blue water, pale sky, distant vessels, and rocks in the foreground. — The final frame holds on the blue horizon and rocky shoreline, with small vessels far offshore.

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