Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Sailboat Gliding Across Purple Ocean at Dusk

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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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Sailboat Gliding Across Purple Ocean at Dusk — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a small sailboat gliding across the calm ocean at dusk. The scene is captured through a dark frame, likely from a window, with a distinct purple color cast and visible film grain. A lone sailboat with a white sail is seen in the distance, moving gently on the water under a muted sky. The footage has a nostalgic, dreamy quality, with subtle camera shake and the characteristic imperfections of analog film, evoking a peaceful summer evening by the sea.

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: 121308920

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, Ocean City travel, sailing, dusk shoreline, or reflective home-movie atmosphere in documentary and editorial edits.
Period detail: The visible scene may show late-1960s amateur 8mm color footage, with a distant small sailboat, open water, muted sky, and a dark foreground frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet, unstaged feel of a home-movie observer watching a sailboat from a fixed or partially sheltered shoreline viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant white sail, small boat hull, calm purple-blue ocean, low horizon, muted dusk sky, dark vertical framing, and film edge shadows.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, purple color shift, soft focus, slight gate movement, and dark frame borders from the scanned film image.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief coastal cutaway, reflective transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for a 1960s seaside sequence.
Historical context: The view supports a general picture of leisure sailing and shoreline watching in a New Jersey beach setting without identifying a specific event or landmark.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, though no faces are discernible here, so likeness review should remain separate from copyright and location review.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1968 Ocean City New Jersey home movie, 8mm sailboat at dusk, vintage coastal sailing, purple ocean footage, or 1960s seaside cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Ocean City footage, then broader 1960s beach, sailing, ocean, and summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey 8mm frame showing a small distant sailboat on calm purple-blue water under a muted sky. — A small sailboat appears near the horizon, framed by dark vertical borders and a purple ocean cast.

Distant sailboat on the Ocean City shoreline view, with soft 8mm grain, purple color shift, and a dark central frame edge. — The sailboat remains far offshore against a flat horizon and subdued dusk sky.

1968 home-movie still of a distant sailboat on purple-blue ocean water, partially framed by dark film or window-like edges. — A distant sailboat crosses the horizon line while film marks and dark borders shape the frame.

Ocean City, New Jersey 1968 8mm frame with a small sailboat offshore, muted sky, grain, and strong purple color cast. — The sailboat sits to the right of the frame on calm water beneath a muted horizon.

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