New York City USA-1976: Boats In The Harbor Near The World Trade Center

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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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Boats In The Harbor Near The World Trade Center — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 capturing a bustling New York City harbor scene. A small motorboat with passengers cruises across the water, passing a large multi-masted sailing ship. The iconic World Trade Center towers and other Manhattan skyscrapers form a dramatic backdrop under a hazy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of mid-1970s New York life and maritime activity.

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: 121095031

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip fits archival requests for mid-1970s New York Harbor, maritime traffic, and World Trade Center skyline cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or commercial editorial use.
Period detail: The visible World Trade Center towers, Manhattan skyline, pleasure boats, and 8mm color stock support a 1976 New York City harbor setting from the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot harbor view, observing boats and skyline from a casual waterfront or vessel-side perspective rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the World Trade Center towers, Manhattan skyscrapers, a small motorboat with passengers, harbor water, a large multi-masted sailing ship, sailboats, haze, and film frame borders.
Film character: The clip shows 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, blue color fading, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, harbor transition, skyline cutaway, or memory beat for 1970s New York City.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational and working harbor activity against Lower Manhattan’s skyline before later changes to the waterfront and cityscape.
Research note: People are visible at a distance on boats, so likeness review may be needed even though no readable logos, private interiors, audible music, or obvious brands are visible in the frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s New York Harbor 8mm footage, World Trade Center skyline from water, Manhattan boats home movie, and vintage New York City harbor scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City harbor or World Trade Center material, then with broader 1970s urban waterfront and boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small motorboat moves across New York Harbor with a large multi-masted sailing ship and distant city buildings behind it, from 1976 8mm home-movie footage. — Motorboat and tall ship in the harbor.

A motorboat with passengers crosses the harbor in front of Lower Manhattan, with the World Trade Center towers and other skyscrapers visible in the background. — Motorboat beneath the Manhattan skyline.

A small passenger motorboat travels across choppy harbor water with the World Trade Center towers, Manhattan skyline, and sailboats behind it. — Harbor boat crossing the skyline view.

Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center towers appear across the water as boats pass in the foreground in a 1976 New York City harbor home movie. — Lower Manhattan seen across the harbor.

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