Baden-Wurttemberg Germany-1937: Handheld Close-Up of a Norddeutscher Lloyd Baggage Label and Trunk Lock

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 · Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

transatlantic travel
ocean liners
luggage and baggage
1930s tourism
German shipping lines
travel documentation

Shot type: detail
Camera: handheld · pan · tilt
Setting: indoor · Close view of a steamer trunk surface; the surroundings are not visible
Time and weather: unknown
Lighting: Hard directional light, high contrast, with the white card briefly overexposed
People: 0 · No people visible.
Objects: steamer trunk · baggage label · round trunk lock · metal hasp · rivets · wooden slats · handwritten entries
Readable signs: GEPÄCKRAUM · BAGGAGE ROOM · NORDDEUTSCHER L… · COLUMBUS · BREMEN · N W YORK
Colors: black · white · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Close-up of the 'Gepäckraum · Baggage Room' tag above a round trunk lock.
The camera drops onto the ribbed lock housing.
A slow move follows the long metal hasp across the trunk.
The camera rises back to the tag, showing handwritten entries.
The printed 'Norddeutscher Lloyd' heading fills the top of frame.

Baden-Wurttemberg Germany-1937: Handheld Close-Up of a... — Clip Details

Likely Germany, circa 1937 home movie footage of a steamer trunk tagged for an ocean crossing. The camera opens on a bilingual 'Gepäckraum Baggage Room' label above a round, ribbed metal lock, then drifts down and across the lock's long hasp and the trunk's riveted slats. It ends on the printed 'Norddeutscher Lloyd' heading, with handwritten entries for Columbus, Bremen and New York. Filmed handheld in close-up on black-and-white film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upBlack & white
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: 800001208

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 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: Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 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: Answers requests for authentic 1930s transatlantic travel detail, giving documentaries and exhibits a real Norddeutscher Lloyd baggage tag hand-marked for the liner Columbus.
Period detail: A printed bilingual German-English baggage-room tag, a handwritten Columbus, Bremen and New York routing, and heavy riveted trunk hardware point to interwar ocean travel, circa 1937.
Home-movie behavior: An amateur traveller turns the camera on their own luggage, recording the tag as a souvenir of the crossing rather than as a staged product shot.
What appears in frame: A white printed tag reading 'Gepäckraum · Baggage Room', a 'Norddeutscher L…' heading, handwritten Columbus and Bremen entries, a round ribbed lock, a long metal hasp and dark riveted trunk slats.
Film character: Crisp black-and-white small-gauge image with deep blacks, a bright card that briefly blooms, fine grain and a gently drifting handheld close-up.
Edit role: Works as an insert or cutaway that marks the ocean crossing, or as a transition between arrival and travel scenes.
Historical context: Norddeutscher Lloyd's Columbus ran between Bremerhaven and New York from 1924 until its crew scuttled it in December 1939, so a Columbus tag ties this trunk to that interwar route.
Research note: No people appear, but the tag carries a partly legible handwritten passenger name; the shipping line's name and tag design may raise trademark questions, separate from copyright in the film itself.
Research search match: Norddeutscher Lloyd luggage label, 1930s steamer trunk close-up, SS Columbus Bremen New York, vintage ocean liner baggage tag, black-and-white amateur travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Freiburg clips (the Alkoholfreies Speisehaus sign, the tram at the Martinstor, the 'Das Deutsche Gold' banner, the parked luxury car), then other 1930s German street footage, then interwar ocean-liner travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Ocean-liner baggage-room tag on a steamer trunk, circa 1937, in black-and-white home movie footage likely shot in Germany — A bilingual 'Gepäckraum · Baggage Room' tag, handwritten with Bremen and New York, above the trunk's round lock.
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Interwar steamer trunk with a German-English baggage tag and ribbed lock, circa 1937, likely Germany — The camera drifts lower, keeping the 'Baggage Room' wording at top and the ribbed lock housing at left.
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Steamer trunk hasp and lock in high-contrast black-and-white film, circa 1937, likely Germany — A long metal hasp crosses the trunk's round lock, with the white baggage tag overexposed above it.
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Norddeutscher Lloyd baggage tag marked for the liner Columbus on a steamer trunk, circa 1937, likely Germany — The printed 'Norddeutscher L…' heading tops a tag hand-marked Columbus, Bremen and New York.
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