Sea Of Galilee Israel-1976: People Watch White Ship Sliding Over Blue Waters

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationSea Of Galilee, Israel
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Israel

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People Watch White Ship Sliding Over Blue Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. A white passenger boat glides across the calm blue waters, seen from a distance through a window frame. In the foreground, the tops of people's heads are visible, suggesting they are watching the vessel pass. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, observational quality typical of personal travel recordings from the era.

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: 127398884

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1239 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: holy land trip,march,jerusalem,bethleham
Reel-level year note: 1976
Reel-level location note: israel,zurich,switzerland
Date: 1976 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: Sea Of Galilee, Israel 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 Israel travel footage suited for documentary inserts needing a calm Sea of Galilee passenger boat view with observers in the foreground.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1970s tourist travel, with a distant white passenger boat, blue water, window framing, and soft 8mm color rendition.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective, with people quietly watching a boat pass rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a distant white passenger boat, window or frame bars, horizon haze, partial heads, film grain, and light scratches.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted blue color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short cutaway, travel-memory beat, waterborne transition, or establishing insert for a 1970s Israel sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents leisure observation on the Sea of Galilee without identifying the vessel, people, operator, or exact shoreline.
Research note: People are partially visible and may require likeness review, while copyright and any location or vessel permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1976 Sea of Galilee 8mm boat, Israel home movie passenger ship, vintage travel water cutaway, and tourists watching boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1976 Sea of Galilee or Israel travel footage, then broader vintage passenger boat and waterside viewing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Sea of Galilee home-movie frame with a white passenger boat crossing blue water beyond dark window framing. — A distant white boat moves across blue water, seen through dark vertical framing.

A white passenger boat passes across the Sea of Galilee while partial observers appear at the bottom of the 8mm frame. — Partial heads appear in the foreground as a white boat passes in the distance.

A soft 8mm view of a distant white passenger boat on the Sea of Galilee, framed by dark vertical edges. — The boat remains distant on the blue water under a hazy horizon.

The final 1976 Sea of Galilee frame shows the white boat receding across blue water within dark window-like borders. — A white passenger boat continues across the water within the dark frame edges.

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