Baltimore Maryland-1961: Three Large Ships Docked At Port On A Clear Sunny Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Baltimore Maryland

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Three Large Ships Docked At Port On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures three large ships docked at a Baltimore port on a clear, sunny day. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows industrial waterfront activity with a prominent multi-story building and a long pier extending over calm water. The camera moves slightly, offering different angles of the vessels and the surrounding docks, evoking a nostalgic mid-century maritime scene. The film's natural imperfections, including slight blurriness and color shifts, enhance its authentic archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475256

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1961 Baltimore maritime or mid-century port cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions needing authentic 8mm waterfront footage.
Period detail: The clip shows large docked vessels, a pier structure, and waterfront buildings that may show early-1960s Baltimore harbor infrastructure from a visitor's vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing and brief shift from ships to shoreline suggest casual home-movie observation rather than staged industrial coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include docked ships, calm harbor water, a pier building, a long waterfront structure, grassy shoreline, trees, and open sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, mild color fading, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Baltimore harbor establishing insert, a maritime transition, or a reflective cutaway within a travel or industrial-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates Baltimore as a working waterfront, with commercial vessels and nearby green shoreline seen through a domestic travel-film lens.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any property or vessel identification concerns for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 8mm Baltimore harbor footage, mid-century docked ships, vintage port waterfront, and home-movie maritime cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1961 Baltimore views, and then broader mid-century harbor, ship, waterfront, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Baltimore harbor view with large docked ships, a pier building, calm water, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Large vessels dock beside a pier structure at the Baltimore waterfront.

A 1961 Baltimore port scene shows moored ships, a long pier, a vertical pier building, and calm harbor water. — Moored ships and pier structures fill the harbor view.

The view shifts to a grassy Baltimore waterfront with trees, open water, distant structures, and soft 8mm color. — A quiet green shoreline appears beside the harbor water.

1961 Baltimore waterfront landscape with calm water in the foreground, grassy banks, scattered trees, and distant harbor structures. — The clip ends on a shoreline view across calm harbor water.

Visually Similar Clips