Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Person Paddling Sail Raft On Calm Open Ocean

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOcean City, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Ocean City New Jersey

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Person Paddling Sail Raft On Calm Open Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1968 showing a person paddling a small raft with a single sail on calm ocean waters. The scene unfolds under a soft, overcast sky with a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged film. The individual, wearing a light-colored shirt, navigates the open sea from a distance, with gentle waves rippling across the water. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders characteristic of Super 8 home movies. This nostalgic clip captures a quiet moment of solitude and adventure on the water, evoking mid-20th century Americana and personal travel memories.

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: 121308882

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 1329 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1968-1970
Reel-level location note: pennsylvania, new jersey
Date: 1968 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: Ocean City, New Jersey, 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: Useful for 1960s coastal recreation requests needing a quiet home-movie view of a lone person paddling a small sail raft on open water.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and distant leisure scene support a late-1960s home-movie reading, with no visible landmarks beyond the ocean horizon.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view from shore or another boat as a small sail raft moves slowly across calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, a low horizon, overcast sky, a small raft, a single upright sail, a distant paddler, gentle waves, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, slight motion softness, gate edges, and minor surface marks that read as authentic archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, summer memory insert, transition into ocean recreation, or quiet pause within a home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows modest personal recreation on open water in Ocean City, New Jersey, without enough detail to identify the person or exact shoreline setting.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, private property, or music are apparent from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm Ocean City New Jersey ocean footage, vintage sail raft, lone paddler at sea, and home movie coastal recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1968 Ocean City material, then broader vintage ocean recreation or small-boat leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey home-movie frame showing a distant person on a small sail raft beyond gentle ocean waves. — A small sail raft sits far offshore on calm water, with the paddler barely visible beneath the upright sail.

Distant 1968 Ocean City coastal view of a person on a small sail raft against a flat ocean horizon. — The raft remains far from the camera, with a single sail rising above the calm purple-blue water.

1968 home-movie frame from Ocean City showing a lone person low on a small sail raft in open water. — A lone figure appears low on the raft as the small sail and craft drift across the open ocean view.

Aged 8mm frame of a distant person on a small sail raft off Ocean City, New Jersey, with film scratches visible near the sky. — The raft and upright sail remain centered in the distance while surface marks and frame borders show the scanned film source.

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