New York City USA-1976: Ships On The Water Near The Statue Of Liberty

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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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Ships On The Water Near The Statue Of Liberty — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 captures a hazy, grainy view of New York City's skyline from a moving boat. The sequence shows the city's skyscrapers across the water, followed by a fleet of ships and sailboats on the harbor. The Statue of Liberty appears in the distance, partially obscured by atmospheric haze. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, color fading, and visible grain, with a dark frame border suggesting a home projection. The camera moves steadily, offering a nostalgic, first-person perspective of a maritime approach to the city.

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: 121094212

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: Useful for 1970s editorial or documentary requests needing home-movie harbor views of New York City, sailboats, ships, and the Statue of Liberty from the water.
Period detail: The hazy skyline, small harbor craft, and soft 8mm color may show a mid-1970s visitor view of New York Harbor supported by the supplied 1976 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot boat perspective, with the camera looking outward across choppy water rather than staging a formal landmark view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant Manhattan skyline, open harbor water, sailboats, a numbered vessel, the Statue of Liberty in haze, dark film-frame borders, and handheld framing from a moving boat.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, haze, gate edges, and slight handheld motion that read as original small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, maritime transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat around New York travel and landmark approach sequences.
Historical context: The view places the Statue of Liberty and New York skyline within everyday harbor traffic, offering visual context for tourist and boat-based observation in the 1970s.
Research note: Review for copyright status and any identifiable people or vessel markings, noting that likeness and property considerations are separate from film copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1976 8mm New York Harbor footage, Statue of Liberty from boat, Manhattan skyline home movie, sailboats in New York City, and vintage harbor travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1976 New York City or harbor footage, then broader vintage maritime and landmark travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm home-movie view of the New York City skyline seen across choppy harbor water from a moving boat. — Manhattan skyline across the harbor.

Small sailboats and harbor vessels move across New York Harbor in soft, hazy 1970s 8mm footage. — Harbor sailboats in haze.

A numbered harbor vessel passes near sailboats on choppy New York Harbor water, filmed from a moving boat in 1976. — Harbor vessel passing sailboats.

The Statue of Liberty appears in the hazy distance beyond sailboats and harbor water in 1976 New York City home-movie footage. — Statue of Liberty through harbor haze.

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