New York City-1960: Silhouetted Spectators Watching The Queen Mary At Dock

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 New York City

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Silhouetted Spectators Watching The Queen Mary At Dock — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures the iconic Queen Mary ocean liner docked in New York City. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows silhouetted spectators observing the massive ship with its distinctive red and white funnels against a hazy blue sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of mid-century nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of maritime history and urban life in the 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127724998

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1615 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: november 23-26
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1960 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 City, 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: Supports 1960s New York maritime or travel productions needing brief home-movie footage of the Queen Mary seen from a spectator viewpoint.
Period detail: The large ocean liner, red-and-white funnels, harbor setting and 8mm color stock align with the supplied 1960 New York City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The window-framed composition and silhouetted onlookers give the clip an unstaged visitor perspective on watching a major passenger liner in harbor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Queen Mary, harbor water, hazy skyline, window mullions, silhouetted spectators, ship funnels and a small boat near the liner.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime cutaway, travel-memory insert, harbor transition or period establishing detail for New York in the 1960s.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects mid-century ocean-liner travel culture as seen by spectators from an indoor or sheltered vantage point overlooking the harbor.
Research note: People are visible in silhouette and one face appears in profile, so likeness review may be needed separate from copyright and location considerations.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960 New York harbor 8mm, Queen Mary at dock, ocean liner home movie and silhouetted spectators watching ship.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1960 New York harbor material, then with ocean-liner travel or spectator-view archive scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 New York City home-movie frame of silhouetted spectators viewing the Queen Mary across harbor water. — Spectators seen in silhouette watch the Queen Mary from behind a window frame.

1960 New York City view of the Queen Mary at dock, partly divided by a dark window frame. — The Queen Mary appears beyond harbor water, framed by a dark vertical window mullion.

1960 New York City harbor footage showing the Queen Mary broadside through a window-framed view. — A broadside view of the Queen Mary fills the frame across the harbor.

1960 New York City harbor frame with the Queen Mary, a small boat and a dark window mullion in view. — The Queen Mary is seen from a window-framed vantage point with a small boat nearby.

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