United States-1948: Women in Print Dresses and Hats Walking a Quay Beside a Liner's Hull

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationUnited States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

sea travel
1940s fashion
passenger liner
harbour wharf
holiday voyage
women travellers
postwar tourism

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · tracking
Setting: outdoor · Timber harbour quay beside a moored passenger liner, with cargo stacked on the wharf and open sea beyond
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast
Lighting: Flat, bright overcast daylight with a pale, near-white sky
People: 5 · Five adult women seen from behind, wearing 1940s dresses in pink, floral print, pale blue and tan, with straw and wide-brimmed dark hats, several carrying handbags
Vehicles: passenger liner
Objects: ship's hull · portholes · ship's ladder · barrels · cargo bales · derrick · handbags · hats · timber decking
Colors: white · pink · brown · pale grey · tan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Women in dresses and hats walk away down the timber quay beside the liner.
A woman in a yellow straw hat enters from the left edge of frame.
The group spreads along the hull, with cargo barrels stacked to the right.
The camera drifts closer as the hull leads toward the sea horizon.

Women in Print Dresses and Hats Walking a Quay Beside a... — Clip Details

Probably a Caribbean island port, circa 1948, home movie footage of five women in 1940s dresses and hats walking away from the camera along a timber quay. The white hull of a passenger liner, lined with rows of portholes, fills the left side, while dark stacked barrels and cargo line the right and open sea shows at the far end of the wharf. The camera follows a few paces behind in one short handheld shot, holding the ship and pier in steep perspective.

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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001639

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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: United States 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: Serves requests for late-1940s passengers on a wharf beside a liner, useful in documentaries on postwar sea travel, tourism and women's fashion.
Period detail: Calf-length print dresses, fitted waists, low heels, wide-brimmed and straw hats and riveted liner plating with eyebrowed portholes may show the late 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: A fellow traveller filmed the group from behind as they walked the quay, an unposed glimpse of passengers going about a shore day rather than a staged departure.
What appears in frame: Five women walking away in pink, floral, pale blue and tan dresses, a white liner hull with porthole rows, a ship's ladder, stacked barrels and bales, a derrick and the sea horizon.
Film character: Warm Kodachrome-like colour in clothing and timber against a blown-out pale sky, soft focus, fine grain and gentle handheld sway give it the texture of a regular 8mm original.
Edit role: Works as a short arrival or memory-beat insert, or a cutaway between shipboard scenes and town sequences in a travel story.
Historical context: The frame shows tourists walking directly along a working cargo wharf beside a large passenger ship, with freight stacked within arm's reach of them.
Research note: The women are seen from behind and are unidentified; the film's copyright, any likeness interests and the ship and port property rights are separate questions, and no clearance is implied.
Research search match: 1940s women walking beside ocean liner, 8mm colour home movie of passengers on a wharf, vintage tropical port quay footage, late-1940s print dresses and hats.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's basket market exit, town centre street, garden flower beds and hotel pool dive, then other late-1940s tropical port footage, then postwar liner travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Women in late-1940s print dresses and hats walk a timber quay beside a liner's hull at a tropical port, circa 1948 — Passengers in print dresses and hats walk the quay beside a liner, circa 1948.
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Woman in a yellow straw hat joins a group of 1940s women walking a wharf beside a liner, probably a Caribbean port — A woman in a yellow straw hat joins the group walking along the liner's side.
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Five women in 1940s dresses spread out along a plank wharf between a liner and stacked cargo, circa 1948 — The group spreads along the wharf between the ship and stacked cargo.
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Women in pink, floral and tan dresses walk toward open sea alongside a liner's hull, likely a Caribbean port, circa 1948 — The quay leads past the liner's hull toward open sea under a pale overcast sky.
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