Nassau Bahamas-1961: A White Elegant Cruise Ship Parked On The Middle Of An Ocean

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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A White Elegant Cruise Ship Parked On The Middle Of An Ocean — Clip Details

NASSAU BAHAMAS-1961: A white cruise ship named Florida is docked at a tropical island, its elegant form visible against a backdrop of lush palm trees and calm blue waters. Passengers in period attire board and disembark via gangway, capturing a moment of mid-century leisure travel. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays characteristic grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the early 1960s.

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: 127584073

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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1961 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: Nassau, Bahamas 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 1960s travel, cruise, Nassau, and Caribbean tourism edits needing authentic home-movie footage of a passenger vessel and dockside movement.
Period detail: The white ship, open decks, gangway activity, and mid-century passenger clothing support the 1961 Nassau cruise-travel context in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, watching the ship from across the water before moving closer to passengers and crew around the gangway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white ship, blue harbor water, tree-lined shore, open decks, railings, gangway, passengers, and the vessel name Florida.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and slight motion blur that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, cruise-arrival cutaway, harbor transition, or memory beat within a mid-century vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places leisure sea travel in a tropical harbor setting, with passengers moving between ship and shore in a casual tourist context.
Research note: People and the ship name are visible, so likeness, trademark, vessel identification, and editorial-versus-commercial use should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 Nassau cruise ship 8mm, Bahamas harbor home movie, mid-century passenger ship, and Caribbean vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Nassau travel scenes, then other 1961 Bahamas harbor material, then broader mid-century cruise and Caribbean tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White cruise ship seen across Nassau harbor in 1961 home-movie footage, with blue water and a low tropical shoreline behind it. — A white passenger ship sits off a tree-lined shore across the harbor.

The white ship remains in view across Nassau harbor, softened by 8mm focus and framed by blue water and shoreline trees. — The vessel is filmed from across the water, with shoreline trees in the background.

A wider 1961 Nassau harbor view shows the white cruise ship against dark shoreline vegetation and calm blue water. — The ship is shown broadside against the tropical shoreline.

Close view of the ship's gangway in Nassau, with people on deck and the vessel name Florida visible near the entrance. — People stand near the gangway and open doorway below the Florida nameplate.

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