New York City USA-1976: Three-Masted Sailing Ship Passing Motorboat

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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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Three-Masted Sailing Ship Passing Motorboat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 captures a large sailing ship with three masts gliding through New York City's harbor, passing a smaller motorboat. The scene features a prominent city skyline with tall buildings under an overcast sky, rendered in the characteristic blue-tinted, grainy quality of 8mm film. The camera remains steady, observing the vessels as they move across the water, evoking a nostalgic, mid-20th century maritime atmosphere.

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: 121094786

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 clip supports 1970s New York Harbor requests needing maritime traffic, tall ships, skyline context, or harbor cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The blue-tinted 8mm image, period small craft, and skyline profile support a 1970s New York City harbor reading, while the specific vessel identity is not established from the frames alone.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot harbor viewpoint, observing boats passing across the water without staging or close interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a three-masted sailing ship, a smaller motorboat, harbor water, dark skyline towers, overcast sky, and the physical contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted blue color cast, slight exposure variation, and steady home-movie framing typical of 8mm source material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor insert, location transition, maritime cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1970s New York sequence.
Historical context: The clip places recreational or harbor vessels against an urban waterfront, offering visual context for New York City's public harbor landscape in the mid-1970s.
Research note: People may be present aboard the vessels but are not clearly identifiable in these frames, and copyright, vessel identity, likeness, and location-use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1976 New York City harbor 8mm, three-masted sailing ship, tall ship passing motorboat, vintage harbor skyline, and home movie waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1976 New York City harbor material, and then broader vintage sailing ship or urban waterfront footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City harbor view with a three-masted sailing ship passing behind a smaller motorboat and dark skyline towers under an overcast sky. — Sailing ship and motorboat pass before the harbor skyline.

The smaller motorboat sits in the foreground as the three-masted sailing ship moves across New York Harbor with skyline towers behind it. — Motorboat foregrounds the tall ship near the skyline.

A small motorboat passes across the foreground while the three-masted sailing ship remains behind it on 1976 New York City harbor water. — Foreground boat passes across the tall ship.

The motorboat is centered in the frame with the three-masted sailing ship and New York City skyline receding behind it across the harbor. — Centered motorboat with tall ship and skyline behind.

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