New York City USA-1976: Sailing Ship and Boats in Harbor

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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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Sailing Ship and Boats in Harbor — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 showing a large sailing ship with multiple masts and billowing sails navigating a harbor. Smaller boats, including a motorboat and sailboats, move alongside the historic vessel on choppy blue water. The scene is viewed through a film frame border, with visible grain and color degradation typical of Super 8 film. A distant city skyline is faintly visible under an overcast sky, capturing a nostalgic maritime moment in New York City.

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: 121094967

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: 1970s New York City harbor home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about tall ships, waterfront activity, recreational boating, or Bicentennial-era maritime atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1970s harbor gathering, with a multi-masted sailing ship, small motorboats, sailboats, and a faint urban shoreline visible through the 8mm frame.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged visitor-shot harbor view, watching a large sailing vessel pass while smaller boats move around it on choppy water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall sailing ship with multiple masts and sails, small motorboats, sailboats, rippled harbor water, a distant shoreline, a pale sky, and the dark edges of the film gate.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print frame borders that give the scene its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, maritime memory beat, waterfront transition, or insert for archival narration about New York harbor activity.
Historical context: The scene reflects public harbor viewing and pleasure boating around a large historic-looking sailing vessel, without enough visual evidence to identify the ship or a specific event from the frames alone.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright in the film scan and any donor terms separately from likeness concerns, since people appear only as distant figures and no readable logos or private property are visible.
Research search match: Researcher searches this may match include 1970s 8mm New York City harbor tall ship footage, home movie sailboats and motorboats, and vintage Super 8 waterfront boating scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1976 New York City harbor material, and finally with other 1970s maritime, tall ship, or recreational boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 New York City harbor view with a large multi-masted sailing ship, a small motorboat, and sailboats seen through an 8mm film frame. — Tall ship and small boats in the harbor.

Large sailing ship with several masts moves through New York City harbor in 1976, with small boats nearby and a faint shoreline beyond. — Sailing ship with escorting small boats.

Home-movie frame from 1976 showing a multi-masted sailing ship in New York City harbor with a motorboat and sailboats crossing the foreground. — Motorboat passes in front of the tall ship.

1976 New York City harbor footage frame with a tall sailing ship on the right, smaller boats in the foreground, and a hazy shoreline behind. — Tall ship framed by small harbor boats.

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