New York City-1964: Large Ship Moves Through Harbor

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Large Ship Moves Through Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a large ship moving steadily through a harbor in New York City. The footage shows the vessel gliding past industrial waterfront structures and a prominent building with a distinctive roofline. The scene is rendered in the characteristic purple and blue color cast of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and slight camera shake. The ship's movement and the surrounding urban landscape evoke a sense of mid-century maritime activity and urban 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: 125499818

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: New York City, New York, 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 New York City harbor requests needing brief 8mm home-movie views of a large ship passing an urban waterfront.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century harbor activity, with a large vessel, industrial waterfront edges, and older rooflines visible in 1964 New York City footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distant shoreline or moving vantage point, giving the scene the casual, visitor-shot feel of a home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large ship, harbor water, waterfront buildings, chimneys or vents, a roofline with towers, and a taller modern block in the background.
Film character: Aged 8mm color renders the harbor in blue-purple tones, with visible grain, soft focus, and slight handheld movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short maritime insert, establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for New York waterfront material.
Historical context: The footage places a working vessel against dense urban waterfront architecture, suggesting everyday harbor movement without identifying a specific ship or pier.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but ship and building identities are not confirmed, so copyright, property, and location review should remain separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 New York City harbor 8mm footage, large ship passing waterfront, vintage home movie vessel, and urban maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1964 New York City waterfront clips, then with broader harbor, ship, and urban travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 New York City 8mm frame showing a large ship moving across harbor water before silhouetted waterfront structures. — A large vessel passes along the New York City waterfront.

The ship remains in view against New York City waterfront buildings, with harbor water in the foreground and aged color cast. — The vessel moves steadily past low waterfront architecture.

A closer 1964 harbor view shows part of the ship passing before waterfront structures and a taller rectangular building. — The ship passes a waterfront edge with taller buildings beyond.

A New York City waterfront building with a peaked roofline and small towers appears in soft, blue-toned 8mm footage. — A waterfront building and roofline fill the closing frame.

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