Baltimore Maryland-1961: Registration Of A Big Boat In The Foreground And Industrial Buildings

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Baltimore Maryland

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Registration Of A Big Boat In The Foreground And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a view from a moving vehicle overlooking a waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland. A large dark boat dominates the foreground, passing by industrial buildings and warehouses under a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic urban atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American industry and transportation.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475014

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s editorial productions needing a brief Baltimore waterfront or industrial harbor view from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century-looking waterfront buildings, a large dark vessel, roadway barriers, and cranes or dock structures in the background.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming quickly from a moving vehicle, with the boat and skyline slipping through the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark vessel, waterfront wall, industrial buildings, warehouse-like roofs, vertical window bars, cranes, bright sky, and roadside foreground blur.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld motion that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel insert, harbor transition, or memory beat within a sequence about urban waterfronts or industry.
Historical context: The view gives visual context for Baltimore's working waterfront in 1961 without identifying a specific pier, company, vessel, or building name.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but vessel, building, and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright or footage licensing questions.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1961 Baltimore waterfront 8mm footage, industrial harbor home movie, large boat foreground, and mid-century urban dock view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Baltimore material, then broader 1960s harbor, transportation, or industrial city footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Baltimore waterfront view with a dark vessel in the foreground and industrial buildings seen through moving 8mm film framing. — A large dark boat passes in front of waterfront industrial buildings.

Moving 8mm view of a Baltimore waterfront with a dark boat, brick industrial buildings, and dock structures under a pale sky. — The boat remains foregrounded as industrial buildings and dock structures sit beyond it.

A canted 1961 Baltimore harbor frame shows the dark boat and waterfront buildings blurred slightly by vehicle motion. — Vehicle motion tilts the harbor view as the boat and buildings slide across frame.

Baltimore waterfront seen from a moving vehicle, with a dark boat in front of mixed industrial buildings and 8mm frame edges. — The final frame reveals more waterfront architecture behind the foreground boat.

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