New York City USA-1976: The Wind Is Coming Again

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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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The Wind Is Coming Again — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New York City in 1976, capturing a hazy, overcast day at a bustling harbor. The grainy, blue-tinted film shows numerous boats and yachts on the water, with a distant city skyline partially obscured by fog. A small American flag flutters on a sailboat in one frame, while a large ferry or tour boat with a covered deck moves through the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic, atmospheric quality. This authentic archival clip offers a candid glimpse into 1970s waterfront life, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 121094872

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 8mm harbor footage can support documentary requests for waterfront atmosphere, city establishing material, or weathered urban memory inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show period harbor traffic, small recreational boats, a larger passenger or tour vessel, and a hazy skyline consistent with the supplied 1976 New York City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the handheld visitor-shot perspective across open water, recording boats and skyline fragments without staged action or visible posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include harbor water, small boats, a larger covered-deck vessel, distant skyline forms, haze, overcast sky, film gate edges, and a small American flag on one boat.
Film character: The footage has blue-tinted 8mm color, heavy grain, soft focus, gate framing, exposure variation, and motion blur that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief waterfront insert, transitional city cutaway, weather beat, or reflective memory shot between denser New York sequences.
Historical context: The frames give visual context for recreational and passenger boat activity around New York City waterways in the mid-1970s without identifying a specific pier or event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, private interiors, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, vessel identity, and property considerations still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Useful researcher phrases include 1976 New York City harbor 8mm footage, 1970s waterfront home movie, hazy skyline boats, and vintage harbor cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York City 1976 waterfront footage, then with broader 1970s harbor, weather, or urban memory material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City harbor view with a large covered-deck boat moving across hazy water and a soft distant skyline in the background. — Boat crossing a hazy New York harbor view.

1976 New York City harbor footage showing small boats on open water, a hazy skyline, and the edge of a larger structure or vessel at the right side of frame. — Small boats on open harbor water.

1976 New York City harbor view with scattered small boats, hazy distance, and a small American flag visible near the lower right edge. — Scattered boats and a small American flag on the harbor.

1976 New York City harbor shot with distant low skyline forms, boats near the waterline, and soft clouds across a blue-tinted sky. — Distant skyline and boats across the harbor.

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