New York City USA-1976: A Boat Is Traveling On The Water With Great Views Of The

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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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A Boat Is Traveling On The Water With Great Views Of The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 capturing a boat journey through New York City's waterways. The clip shows a small motorboat navigating beneath iconic bridges, with the Manhattan skyline visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, muted blue and purple color tones, and a slightly soft focus. The camera moves steadily, offering changing perspectives of the bridge structures and city buildings, creating a nostalgic view of New York's urban landscape from the water.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121093928

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s New York City waterfront home-movie footage useful for documentary sequences needing a brief boat-level view of bridges, harbor water, and the Manhattan skyline.
Period detail: The muted 8mm color, soft focus, bridge structures, small motorboat, and distant skyline support a 1976 urban-waterfront setting without requiring identification of a specific bridge or building.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot boat-ride perspective, with the camera observing the city from the water rather than staging any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled harbor water, steel bridge spans and railings, a small motorboat, distant shoreline structures, and the Manhattan skyline seen through and beyond bridge framing.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, blue-purple color shift, mild blur, uneven exposure, and handheld movement consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, city-arrival transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s New York sequence.
Historical context: The water-level viewpoint places New York City landmarks within an everyday leisure or transit experience, emphasizing skyline and bridge scale from a small moving boat.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or clearly private property are visible in the supplied frames, but users should still review copyright, location, and any incidental property considerations for their production.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1976 8mm New York City boat ride, vintage Manhattan skyline from water, home movie bridge views, and 1970s urban waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City waterfront or bridge views, and finally with broader vintage boat-travel and city-skyline material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City 8mm boat-view frame showing rippled water, a bridge structure, and a small motorboat moving ahead in soft focus. — Boat view under a bridge on New York City water.

1976 New York City waterfront seen from a boat, framed by bridge steelwork above and across the middle of the frame. — Bridge framing over a distant waterfront.

Soft 8mm frame from a New York City boat ride showing bridge supports, dark water, and a small motorboat moving through the scene. — Small boat passing bridge supports.

1976 New York City 8mm frame showing the Manhattan skyline beyond a bridge and harbor water, with a small boat wake in the foreground. — Skyline beyond bridge and harbor water.

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