New York-1948: Vintage Cruise Ship Docked With Tugboat and Passengers Watching

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Vintage Cruise Ship Docked With Tugboat and Passengers... — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1948: Vintage 8mm film captures a large ocean liner docked at a harbor, its white hull and lifeboats visible under a bright sky. A tugboat assists the massive ship, while passengers in period attire stand on the deck, observing the scene. The footage, shot through a window frame, shows classic mid-century maritime travel with authentic film grain and color fading, evoking a nostalgic sense of 1940s travel and 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560185

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 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
Date: 1948 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: New York, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or museum edits needing New York harbor ocean-liner arrival or departure footage with tugboat assistance and passengers watching from deck.
Period detail: The large white liner, lifeboats, tugboat, railings, and period passenger silhouettes support a late-1940s maritime travel setting without identifying the vessel by name.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective through framing bars, moving between the liner, tugboat, water, and onlookers gathered along the deck rail.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white ocean liner, rows of lifeboats, a tugboat at the hull, harbor water, deck railings, passengers, a red flag, and dark window or film-frame bars.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, gate edges, handheld movement, and exposure shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief harbor cutaway, travel transition, ship-arrival insert, or memory beat within mid-century transport and New York port sequences.
Historical context: The clip reflects mid-century passenger-ship travel and harbor viewing, with people observing maritime activity rather than a staged public ceremony.
Research note: People and a visible funnel marking or logo require likeness and trademark review, while copyright status should be evaluated separately from identifiable marks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1948 New York harbor 8mm ocean liner, vintage cruise ship tugboat, home movie passengers on ship deck, and mid-century maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1948 New York harbor footage, and then with broader ocean-liner, tugboat, and passenger-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York harbor footage appears to show a white ocean liner with lifeboats, viewed through dark framing bars from a nearby vantage point. — A large ocean liner fills the frame, with rows of lifeboats and harbor water visible beyond dark framing bars.

In New York harbor, a tugboat appears beside the hull of a large white ocean liner carrying rows of lifeboats on its upper deck. — A tugboat works close to the ocean liner's side while lifeboats line the upper deck.

A soft 8mm frame shows a tugboat near the large liner, with the harbor and lifeboats blurred by motion and focus. — The tugboat and liner pass through a soft, handheld frame with harbor water in the background.

Passengers in 1948 New York harbor stand along a ship deck railing, watching the water near chairs and a red flag. — Passengers gather at the rail to watch harbor activity from the ship deck.

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