Wisconsin-1971: Tugboat Pushes Barges Through Frozen River

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Wisconsin

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Tugboat Pushes Barges Through Frozen River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large white tugboat navigating a frozen river in Wisconsin. The vessel, labeled 'AMERICA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY', pushes a long line of barges through icy waters, surrounded by snow-covered banks and bare winter trees. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the boat moving slowly across the frozen river under a pale blue sky, with distant hills visible in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film enhances the nostalgic, archival feel of this winter transportation scene.

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: 125775230

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1007 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: Wisconsin,Michigan
Date: 1971 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: Wisconsin, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1971 Wisconsin 8mm footage suited to documentary or museum requests for winter river transport, tugboat work, ice navigation, and inland barge traffic.
Period detail: The clip shows a white tugboat and barges on a frozen river, with snow-covered banks, bare trees, distant hills, and a home-window viewpoint consistent with early 1970s amateur filming.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the tug from indoors through window framing, giving the scene an unstaged residential witness quality rather than a formal industrial record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white tugboat, dark barges, broken river ice, snow-covered banks, leafless trees, utility poles, distant low hills, and dark window mullions.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, winter transportation cutaway, regional industry transition, or memory beat within a sequence about rivers, freight, or severe weather.
Historical context: The footage documents a working vessel moving through icy inland water, visually linking winter landscape, river infrastructure, and commercial transport without showing people.
Research note: The vessel name and company marking may require identification review; copyright, trademark, and location/property considerations remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1971 Wisconsin tugboat 8mm, frozen river barges home movie, winter river transport footage, and vintage inland waterway freight.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Wisconsin winter footage, then broader clips of tugboats, barges, frozen rivers, and Midwestern transport.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a white tugboat pushing barges through ice on a snow-covered river, viewed through dark window framing. — A tugboat pushes barges through broken ice on a snowy river.

A closer 1971 Wisconsin view shows the tugboat and barges cutting through ice, partly obscured by leafless trees and a dark window mullion. — The tugboat moves past bare riverside trees and ice.

The tugboat appears large in frame as it pushes dark barges through frozen water, with winter trees and snow framing the 1971 Wisconsin scene. — A close pass of the tug and barges through the ice.

A wider 1971 Wisconsin frame shows the tug and barges on an icy river below pale sky and distant hills, still partly framed by the window. — The vessel continues across the frozen river in a wider view.

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