California-1952: Passenger Ship Docked At Harbor With Small Boats

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Passenger Ship Docked At Harbor With Small Boats — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger ship docked at a bustling California harbor. The white vessel, featuring a prominent blue and white smokestack, is moored alongside a pier with smaller boats nearby. The footage, marked by classic film grain and slight blurriness, shows a sunny day with calm blue waters and a hilly coastline in the background. The scene evokes mid-century maritime travel and coastal life, with people visible on the decks and docks, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s California port activity.

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: 127545622

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: California, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s California maritime, vacation, or harbor-life sequences needing real 8mm home-movie views of passenger ships, small boats, and coastal recreation.
Period detail: The white passenger vessel, small motorboats, open harbor water, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century leisure travel and waterfront activity in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving between docked ship views and nearby boats where people gather or swim in an unstaged harbor setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large docked passenger ship, blue-and-white smokestack, pier pilings, small boats, swimmers, a floating platform, calm harbor water, and a rocky hillside.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserves the physical-film feel.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a harbor establishing insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or brief memory beat for postwar coastal leisure.
Historical context: The scene visually places passenger travel and small-boat recreation together, suggesting a busy coastal harbor without confirming a specific port or vessel identity.
Research note: People and possible vessel markings are visible, so likeness, trademark, and location identification review may still be needed apart from film copyright questions.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1952 California harbor 8mm, passenger ship docked, mid-century coastal travel, small boats, and vintage home movie waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel harbor or travel shots, then other California 1952 waterfront footage, then broader 1950s passenger ship or coastal recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm frame showing a large white passenger ship with a blue-and-white smokestack docked beside small harbor boats. — Passenger ship moored at a harbor pier with smaller boats nearby.

1952 California harbor view with people gathered on a yellow floating platform, swimmers in the water, and boats in the background. — Swimmers and people on a floating platform in the harbor.

Soft 8mm view of a passenger ship near a rocky California harbor shoreline, with small motorboats clustered in the foreground. — Passenger ship and small boats against a rocky harbor hillside.

1952 California harbor frame with small motorboats in the foreground and a white passenger ship moored below a rocky hillside. — Small boats pass before a docked passenger ship along the hillside harbor.

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