Rockaway Beach New York USA-1967: Boat In Ocean Floating On The Big Waves Of The

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationRockaway Beach, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Rockaway Beach New York

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Boat In Ocean Floating On The Big Waves Of The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Rockaway Beach, New York, USA, in 1967, showing a small motorboat floating on the ocean. The scene is captured through a dark, rounded frame, with a distinct purple color cast and visible film grain. Waves roll toward the shore in the foreground, while the boat remains stationary in the distance. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking mid-20th century Americana and seaside recreation.

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: 121307237

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 2234 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: chris piraino,
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: lynbrook new york
Date: 1967 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Rockaway Beach, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1960s Rockaway Beach home-movie footage for productions needing a brief ocean, surf, or small-boat cutaway with a New York seaside setting.
Period detail: The clip may show 1967 amateur 8mm filming, with a distant small motorboat offshore and rolling surf as the main visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged beachgoer viewpoint, watching a boat beyond the breakers from shore rather than presenting a planned travel scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, ocean horizon, rolling waves, white surf, dark frame edges, purple color cast, and coarse film grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, rounded dark borders, uneven exposure, and a strong purple cast that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short seaside insert, transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between Rockaway Beach or ocean-recreation material.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century leisure filming at the shore, with attention on surf and a small offshore boat rather than people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any production-specific rights review remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Rockaway Beach surf, New York ocean boat home movie, vintage beach waves, and small motorboat offshore.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel beach footage, then other 1967 Rockaway Beach material, then broader 1960s ocean, surf, boating, or seaside recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Rockaway Beach 8mm frame showing a small motorboat beyond rolling surf with a purple film cast and dark rounded edges. — A small motorboat sits offshore beyond the breaking waves.

1967 Rockaway Beach 8mm frame with a distant small motorboat on open water and surf breaking across the foreground. — The boat remains offshore as waves roll toward the beach.

1967 Rockaway Beach 8mm frame showing a small offshore boat above a broad swell and foamy surf in the foreground. — A broad wave rises between the shoreline and the distant boat.

1967 Rockaway Beach 8mm frame showing a motorboat offshore, a dark rolling swell, and white surf under a purple film cast. — The final frame holds on the offshore boat and rolling surf.

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