New York City USA-1976: City Skyline Viewed From An Offshore Boat In Water With

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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 Viewed From An Offshore Boat In Water With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 showing a hazy, grainy view of the New York City skyline from a moving boat on the water. The clip captures the city's iconic skyscrapers across the harbor under an overcast sky, with gentle waves in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including soft focus, color fading, and natural grain, offering a nostalgic, authentic glimpse of New York from a maritime perspective.

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: 121094286

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

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: 1970s New York City harbor skyline footage for documentary edits needing an offshore, visitor-shot establishing view of the city from the water.
Period detail: The hazy skyline, small harbor craft, soft color, and 8mm home-movie texture support the 1976 New York City setting provided in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to be held from a moving boat, giving the clip the value of an unstaged visitor perspective rather than a composed civic panorama.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open harbor water, a distant New York City skyline, low shoreline, small boats, hazy sky, and dark contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld motion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, harbor transition, travel-memory beat, or period cutaway before or after urban waterfront material.
Historical context: The clip places New York City in relation to its surrounding harbor, emphasizing skyline recognition from offshore rather than street-level activity.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, skyline/property context, and location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm New York City skyline from boat, vintage harbor view, offshore Manhattan-style skyline, and home movie waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City harbor or skyline views, and then with broader vintage boat-travel and urban waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City harbor view with a dark, distant skyline beyond rippled water, seen from an offshore boat in soft 8mm focus. — Skyline seen across the harbor.

Open New York City harbor water in 1976 with a faint low shoreline on the horizon and a hazy, overcast sky. — Open harbor and distant shoreline.

Small craft on New York City harbor water in 1976, with low shoreline and haze visible across the background. — Small boat on the harbor.

Several small boats on New York City harbor water in 1976, filmed from a moving offshore boat with soft grain and haze. — Boats moving across the harbor.

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