New York City USA-1976: Sailing Ship Smoothly Passing Manhattan Skyline

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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 Smoothly Passing Manhattan Skyline — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1976 showing a large sailing ship gliding smoothly across the water in front of the New York City skyline. The clip captures the iconic Manhattan skyscrapers under a bright, sunny sky, with the ship's masts and rigging clearly visible against the urban backdrop. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, slight color fading, and a blueish tint typical of archival home movies from the era. The camera appears to be handheld, offering a steady but slightly unsteady view of the ship's passage along the shoreline, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-1970s Americana and maritime history.

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: 121095204

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s New York harbor footage suited to documentary or educational requests for Manhattan skyline views with a sailing vessel in the foreground.
Period detail: The skyline profile, waterfront view, 8mm color handling, and metadata-supported 1976 date place the clip in a mid-1970s New York City setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot harbor perspective, holding on the ship as it passes across the skyline rather than presenting a staged maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open harbor water, a multi-masted sailing ship, Manhattan skyscrapers, a bright sky, shoreline structures, and slight frame-edge vignetting from the film scan.
Film character: The clip shows blue-tinted 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and a handheld but relatively steady home-movie frame.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, maritime cutaway, skyline transition, or period memory beat for New York in the 1970s.
Historical context: The view connects recreational or sightseeing harbor movement with the dense urban waterfront of New York City without showing identifiable people or foreground activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or vessel identification needs separately.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under searches such as 1976 New York City 8mm harbor footage, Manhattan skyline sailing ship, vintage home movie waterfront, or 1970s New York skyline boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1976 New York City harbor or skyline footage, and finally with broader vintage sailing ship or urban waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A multi-masted sailing ship moves across New York City harbor water with the Manhattan skyline in the background in metadata-supported 1976 8mm footage. — Sailing ship against the Manhattan skyline.

The ship appears near the center of the frame, its masts and rigging silhouetted against the Manhattan skyscrapers and pale blue sky. — Ship centered before the city skyline.

The vessel continues across the harbor in front of the New York City skyline, with soft 8mm focus and blue-tinted color visible in the frame. — Ship moving past Manhattan buildings.

The ship sits low in the frame as it passes the Manhattan skyline, with wide harbor water, skyscrapers, and archival 8mm grain visible. — Sailing ship low against the skyline.

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