Nassau Bahamas-1961: Man Wearing Grey Jacket Walks Down White Ramp Holding Straw Hat

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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Man Wearing Grey Jacket Walks Down White Ramp Holding... — Clip Details

NASSAU BAHAMAS-1961: A man in a grey jacket and straw hat walks down a white gangway from a cruise ship, waving his hat as he descends. The ship's white hull and portholes are visible, with the name "FLORIDA" on the side. Other passengers appear at the doorway as the man reaches the dock. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a nostalgic moment of travel and departure in the early 1960s, with natural sunlight and classic film grain.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 127584137

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$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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s travel, cruise arrival, and Nassau visitor footage needs for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits using real 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The ship gangway, dress clothes, straw hat, white hull, portholes, and visible FLORIDA name may show early-1960s cruise travel styling and passenger movement.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in a traveler waving a hat toward the camera while other passengers emerge behind him, giving the moment a personal vacation-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white ship hull, round portholes, a gangway rail, an open doorway, passengers, a grey jacket, a straw hat, and the FLORIDA lettering.
Film character: The 8mm color footage shows handheld framing, soft focus, visible grain, bright sunlight, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short arrival insert, cruise-travel transition, port-of-call cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about 1960s tourism.
Historical context: The footage shows leisure travel through a ship-to-dock passage in Nassau, with clothing and passenger behavior suggesting a mid-century vacation context.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and the ship name appears on screen, so likeness, trademark, and location context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Nassau Bahamas 8mm cruise ship arrival, man waving straw hat on gangway, and vintage home movie port travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then with Nassau or 1961 Bahamas footage, then with broader cruise ship, port arrival, and vacation themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Nassau, Bahamas, 1961, a man in a grey jacket waves a straw hat from a white gangway beside a ship hull. — A man waves his hat while descending the gangway from a white cruise ship.

A 1961 Nassau travel frame shows the man on the white gangway, hat raised near his head, with portholes behind him. — The passenger continues down the gangway with the ship hull and portholes behind him.

Passengers appear at the ship doorway under FLORIDA lettering while foreground walkers blur across the 8mm frame. — Other passengers gather at the doorway as movement on the dock crosses the foreground.

In the final frame, passengers stand on the gangway beside the open ship doorway, with FLORIDA visible above them. — Passengers pause on the gangway by the open doorway with the ship name partly visible.

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