Seattle Washington-1974: Ferry on Water with Space Needle in Distance

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationSeattle, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ferry on Water with Space Needle in Distance — Clip Details

SEATTLE WASHINGTON USA-1974: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a ferry moving across the water on a cloudy day, with the iconic Space Needle visible in the distance. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, shows the ferry navigating the bay under a hazy, overcast sky with a distinct purple-blue tint. The shoreline features low hills and scattered buildings, with the city's skyline emerging through the mist. The grainy texture and color saturation are characteristic of 1970s Super 8 film, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic projects, or historical content.

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: 125632408

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 1016 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1974
Reel-level location note: seattle,british columbia canada
Date: 1974 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: Seattle, Washington, 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: 1970s 8mm waterfront travel footage for documentary inserts needing a ferry or small vessel crossing a bay near a distant city landmark.
Period detail: The clip shows a low, boxy vessel, hazy shoreline buildings, and a distant needle-like observation tower that may reflect the mid-1970s urban waterfront setting.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels visitor-shot from across the water, holding on the moving ferry and skyline rather than staging a composed landmark view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, a small ferry or boat, low shoreline hills, scattered waterfront buildings, cloudy sky, and a distant needle-like tower.
Film character: The scan has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight frame weave, and a purple-blue color cast consistent with aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat for 1970s coastal city material.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for a cloudy waterfront crossing and distant skyline as recorded by a home-movie camera in 1974.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but landmark, vessel, copyright, and location identification should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1974 Vancouver 8mm ferry footage, vintage waterfront skyline home movie, and 1970s bay crossing archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Vancouver or 1974 waterfront material, then with broader 1970s ferry, harbor, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Vancouver home-movie frame showing a small white ferry crossing hazy water toward a distant shoreline and needle-like tower. — A small ferry moves across the bay with low hills and a distant tower beyond the water.

The ferry appears farther across the water, with hazy shoreline buildings and a needle-like observation tower in the distance. — The vessel continues across gray-blue water below a cloudy skyline.

A purple-blue tinted 8mm frame shows the boat low in the scene, with distant hills, shoreline structures, and a tower through haze. — The boat sits low in frame as the hazy waterfront recedes into the background.

Final 1974 waterfront frame with a small boat crossing the bay, low hills on the horizon, and a distant needle-like tower. — A small boat crosses the water under an overcast sky with the distant tower still visible.

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