New York City USA-1976: Boat Navigates Polluted Waterfront near Industrial Building, New York City

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 New York City

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Boat Navigates Polluted Waterfront near Industrial... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 showing a boat ride along a polluted New York City waterfront. The clip captures a large industrial building with smokestacks under a steel truss bridge, likely the Queensboro Bridge, with the city skyline visible in the distance. The water appears murky and reflective, with a rocky shoreline and a small docked boat. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly hazy quality, offering a nostalgic glimpse of urban industrial life and environmental conditions in the mid-1970s.

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: 121093754

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$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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1976 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: New York City, New York, 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: 1970s 8mm waterfront footage for productions needing an urban New York boat-ride view, industrial shoreline atmosphere, or environmental context cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show mid-1970s home-movie views of a New York City waterfront, with a steel truss bridge, industrial buildings, smokestacks, distant towers, and hazy daylight over the river.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger perspective from a moving boat, watching the shoreline, bridge structure, and skyline pass without visible performers or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include murky river water, a rocky shoreline, a docked small boat, a pale industrial building, smokestacks, a steel bridge overhead, and a hazy distant city skyline.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld movement that give the waterfront scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or atmospheric cutaway for urban water pollution, industrial waterfronts, boat travel, or 1970s New York context.
Historical context: The footage visually situates New York City as seen from the water in 1976, emphasizing industrial riverbanks, haze, and heavy urban infrastructure rather than street-level activity.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, property, copyright, and editorial-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1976 New York City 8mm waterfront, polluted river boat ride, Queensboro Bridge area home movie, industrial shoreline, and 1970s urban river footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1976 New York City waterfront or bridge views, and then with broader pollution, industrial shoreline, and urban boat-ride material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City waterfront view from a boat, showing murky river water, a rocky bank, a pale industrial building, smokestacks, and steel bridge structure overhead. — Industrial shoreline beneath a bridge from the river.

Boat-passenger view of the New York City riverfront in 1976, with a pale industrial building, dark-roofed structure, small boat near the shore, smokestacks, and bridge framing at the top. — Riverfront structures and small boat below the bridge.

Wide 1976 New York City river view from a moving boat, with hazy distant towers, open water, an industrial shoreline to the right, and soft 8mm color fading. — Hazy skyline beyond the river and shoreline.

Soft 8mm view of the New York City waterfront in 1976, showing broad river water, distant high-rise towers in haze, and low industrial buildings along the right bank. — Distant towers seen across the hazy river.

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