New York City USA-1976: Ferry Boat On Water With World Trade Center In Background

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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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Ferry Boat On Water With World Trade Center In Background — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New York City in 1976, captured from a moving boat on the water. The grainy, color-bleached film shows a yellow and black ferry or large vessel passing by under a hazy blue sky. In the foreground, the top of a person's head is visible, suggesting a first-person perspective. The iconic twin towers of the World Trade Center rise in the background, establishing the location. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic 1970s home movie aesthetic with natural motion and film grain.

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: 121094093

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1970s New York City 8mm clip supports documentary or editorial requests for visitor-shot harbor footage with a ferry-like vessel and the World Trade Center visible in the background.
Period detail: The color 8mm texture, handheld boat vantage, 1976 metadata, and skyline with the World Trade Center provide period clues for mid-1970s New York harbor material.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged passenger perspective from a moving boat, with a partial head in the foreground reinforcing a casual home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy harbor water, a yellow and dark ferry-like vessel, hazy blue sky, distant shoreline structures, the World Trade Center skyline, film frame borders, and a partial passenger head.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, color fade, gate edges, handheld motion, and uneven exposure consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor insert, travel transition, skyline cutaway, or memory beat establishing New York City from the water in the 1970s.
Historical context: The view places everyday boat travel against the New York City waterfront, with the World Trade Center serving as a visible skyline marker rather than the subject of any specific event.
Research note: People are only partially visible and not clearly identifiable in these frames, but likeness review may still be needed, and copyright clearance remains separate from any landmark or property considerations.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1976 New York City 8mm harbor footage, ferry on water with World Trade Center background, vintage home movie New York waterfront, and 1970s Manhattan skyline from boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City harbor or skyline footage, and finally with broader vintage ferry, boat travel, or waterfront home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City 8mm frame showing a yellow and dark ferry-like vessel on harbor water, with distant skyline forms and the World Trade Center faintly visible through haze. — Ferry-like vessel on New York harbor with skyline beyond.

1976 New York City home-movie frame from a boat, showing a yellow and dark vessel moving across harbor water with faint distant waterfront structures in the background. — Vessel passing across the harbor water.

1976 New York City 8mm frame showing a ferry-like vessel across choppy harbor water, with the top of a passenger's head visible at the lower edge. — Passenger-view harbor shot with vessel beyond.

1976 New York City boat-view frame showing a yellow and dark vessel on the harbor, distant waterfront structures, and a partially visible passenger head in the foreground. — Harbor vessel seen from a moving boat.

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