New York City USA-1976: City Skyline Across Wide River

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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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City Skyline Across Wide River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 showing a panoramic view of New York City's skyline across a wide river. The clip captures a mix of mid-century modern high-rises and lower residential buildings along the waterfront under a hazy blue sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus, with the camera appearing to pan slowly across the urban landscape. The dark frame borders suggest the footage was shot from a window or boat, offering a nostalgic, personal perspective of the city's architecture and waterfront.

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: 121093773

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 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: Useful for 1970s New York City waterfront establishing material, especially documentaries or education projects needing a brief skyline-and-river view from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames show a broad urban riverfront with boxy high-rise and lower waterfront buildings that support a mid-1970s cityscape reading from the supplied 1976 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The dark contact-print borders and soft shifting view suggest a visitor-shot or transit-window perspective rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide river, hazy blue sky, distant city skyline, waterfront apartment blocks, taller office-like towers, shoreline structures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give it recognizable physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transitional city cutaway, or memory beat before or after New York waterfront material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a quieter river-facing view of New York City architecture and shoreline development without showing street activity or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location concerns separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1976 New York City 8mm skyline, vintage waterfront river view, 1970s urban home movie, and hazy cityscape across water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City waterfront views, and then with broader 1970s urban skyline or river establishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City home-movie frame showing a wide river, distant skyline, and low waterfront buildings seen through dark film borders. — Riverfront skyline across the water.

1976 New York City frame with a broad river foreground, hazy skyline in the distance, and waterfront buildings along the right shoreline. — Skyline receding along the river.

1976 New York City home-movie frame showing a closer waterfront section with low buildings, taller towers behind them, and river water in the foreground. — Waterfront buildings with towers behind.

1976 New York City frame showing riverfront buildings, taller background towers, a hazy sky, and the dark edge of the 8mm contact-sheet frame. — Closer shoreline and city towers.

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