Bermuda-1948: Black Steam Tender With Brass Ventilators Seen From a Liner's Deck

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationBermuda
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · Bermuda

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What is in this clip

sea voyage
harbour work
steam power
ocean liner travel
island holiday
maritime history
postwar tourism

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · tilt · high angle
Setting: outdoor · harbour water seen from a liner's deck, with a wooded shoreline and a white-roofed house at the top of the frame in the opening seconds
Time and weather: day · clear
Lighting: natural daylight
People: 2 · Two small, distant crew figures standing on the tender's open stern deck; faces are not discernible.
Vehicles: steam harbour tender
Objects: steam tender · funnel · smoke · brass cowl ventilators · mast · deck railings · life rings · rope line · house with white roof
Colors: blue · black · brass gold · white · orange
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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From a liner's deck, the tender sits below with a white-roofed house on the shore above it.
White smoke puffs from the buff funnel above the brass ventilators.
The view settles lower and the black hull fills the frame against blue water.
Two small crew figures stand on the open stern deck as the shot holds.

Black Steam Tender With Brass Ventilators Seen From a... — Clip Details

Bermuda, circa 1948 home movie footage looks down from a liner's high deck on a black steam harbour tender lying in blue water. A shore with trees and a house under a white roof shows along the top of the frame at first, then the view settles lower as smoke drifts from the buff funnel. Brass cowl ventilators, a railed upper deck, orange life rings and two small crew figures on the stern deck are visible. It is one steady handheld shot.

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: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000103

Rights & Clearance

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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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Bermuda Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Helps a documentary or museum production needing circa-1948 colour footage of a steam harbour tender seen from a liner, for stories of postwar sea travel to Bermuda.
Period detail: The coal- or oil-fired steam tender with brass cowl ventilators and a tall funnel may show harbour craft of the late 1940s, and the white-roofed house fits Bermuda's traditional building style.
Home-movie behavior: A passenger leaning over the liner's rail films the working boat below, giving the unstaged traveller's view of arrival activity rather than an official port record.
What appears in frame: A black-hulled tender, a buff funnel with a black top trailing smoke, curved brass ventilators, a railed upper deck, orange life rings, two crew on the stern deck, a pale rope and a distant white-roofed house.
Film character: Colour 8mm with a deep blue-violet cast, rich blacks, warm brass highlights, visible grain, soft focus and a fleck of dirt, the texture of a projected original reel.
Edit role: Works as an arrival cutaway or establishing insert for a ship reaching port, or as a memory beat inside a vintage holiday sequence.
Historical context: Passenger liners sailed regularly between New York and Bermuda, with the Furness Bermuda Line running the route from 1919, and this shot shows the harbour craft a traveller saw on arrival.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness and property rights; the two crew figures are too small to identify, while the vessel and shore house may need property review for some uses, so clearance is not guaranteed.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1940s steam tender footage, Bermuda harbour home movie, view from ocean liner deck, or colour 8mm sea voyage film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's farewell party on the liner deck, friends at a ship's rail and sailing yacht in harbour clips, then with other circa-1948 Bermuda footage, then with harbour steamer and tugboat material.

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Steam harbour tender seen from a liner deck in Bermuda, circa 1948, with a wooded shore and white-roofed house at the top — A steam tender lies below the liner, with the shore visible beyond, Bermuda, circa 1948.
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Smoke rises from the funnel of a black steam tender in a blue Bermuda harbour, circa 1948, filmed from a ship's deck — White smoke rises from the tender's funnel as it waits alongside, circa 1948.
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Black steam tender with brass fittings in a Bermuda harbour, circa 1948, two crew on its stern deck, colour 8mm home movie — Two crew stand on the open stern deck of the steam tender, Bermuda, circa 1948.
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Closing view of a steam harbour tender from a liner's rail in Bermuda, circa 1948, with grain and dirt from the original 8mm film — The held high-angle view of the tender at the end of the shot, circa 1948.
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