New York City-1960: Old Footage Of Big Ship Leaving The City Coast By The Ocean

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 New York City

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Old Footage Of Big Ship Leaving The City Coast By The Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a massive ocean liner departing from New York City's harbor. The iconic vessel, with its distinctive red, white, and black funnels, glides across the water under an overcast sky. A small tugboat assists the massive ship as it moves away from the city coast. The footage, marked by classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime travel and urban waterfront life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127725028

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1960s New York harbor home-movie footage for edits needing an ocean liner departure, maritime travel atmosphere, or mid-century waterfront cutaway.
Period detail: The large liner with red, white, and black funnels, tugboat assistance, and harbor skyline may show mid-century passenger-ship activity in New York City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, handheld viewpoint from shore or another vessel, observing the ship passing rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large ocean liner, two red-topped funnels, dark hull, white upper decks, tugboat, open harbor water, distant shoreline, and hazy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld drift that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for harbor departure and ocean-liner sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a public waterfront view of passenger-ship movement before contemporary container-port imagery dominates many harbor visuals.
Research note: No people, faces, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any trademark-like markings should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1960 New York City harbor 8mm, ocean liner leaving port, tugboat assisting passenger ship, and vintage maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1960 New York harbor scenes, then broader ocean-liner, tugboat, waterfront, and travel-departure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 New York City harbor view of a large ocean liner passing across the frame with a small tugboat nearby. — Ocean liner and tugboat seen from a distant harbor viewpoint.

Large ocean liner in 1960 New York City harbor, seen broadside with two funnels and a small tugboat near the hull. — Broadside view of the liner crossing the harbor.

Partial view of the ocean liner moving through New York City harbor, with one funnel prominent and shoreline in the distance. — The liner continues past the camera with its bow area visible.

End of the 1960 harbor shot as the ocean liner passes partly out of frame, leaving open water and distant shoreline visible. — The liner exits the frame across the harbor.

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