New York City-1964: Port Scene with Passenger Ship and Coffee Sign

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

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Port Scene with Passenger Ship and Coffee Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a waterfront scene in New York City. The footage shows a large white passenger ship docked near a prominent gas storage tank, followed by views of industrial port facilities with cranes and cargo vessels. The sequence includes a clear shot of the Maxwell House Coffee sign on a building across the water, linking the location to the iconic brand. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a purple-blue tint typical of 1960s home movies, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century urban and industrial life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125499878

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 waterfront, industrial port, shipping, and brand-signage requests in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The 1964 home-movie frames show mid-century harbor industry, cranes, cargo vessels, and a visible Maxwell House Coffee sign across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot waterfront perspective, observing distant port structures from across moving water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include harbor water, distant industrial buildings, cranes, a large docked vessel, cargo craft, smokestacks, and the Maxwell House Coffee sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, gate edges, and purple-blue color shift consistent with aging mid-century home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, industrial cutaway, harbor transition, or branded-location memory beat for New York City in the 1960s.
Historical context: The footage places a recognizable consumer-brand sign within a working waterfront setting, showing commercial identity alongside port infrastructure.
Research note: The Maxwell House brand sign is visible, so trademark and editorial-use review may be needed; no people are visible, but copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1964 New York City harbor 8mm, Maxwell House Coffee sign waterfront, vintage industrial port, and mid-century shipping footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1964 New York City waterfront material, then broader coffee, factory, harbor, or shipping themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm view across New York City harbor toward a large docked vessel, cranes, and industrial shoreline. — Distant industrial waterfront with a large ship and cranes across the water.

Soft 1964 home-movie frame of New York City waterfront industry with a docked ship, cranes, and harbor water. — A large vessel and port cranes sit along the distant waterfront.

1964 8mm frame across New York City harbor showing the Maxwell House Coffee sign on an industrial waterfront building. — The Maxwell House Coffee sign appears above low industrial waterfront structures.

New York City waterfront view from 1964 with Maxwell House Coffee signage, cranes, smokestacks, and harbor water. — Industrial harbor structures and the Maxwell House Coffee sign are seen across the water.

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