Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Small Sailboat Gliding Across the Ocean with Lighthouse in Distance

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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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Small Sailboat Gliding Across the Ocean with Lighthouse... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a small sailboat with two people gliding across the calm ocean under a hazy purple sky. The scene is framed by dark borders, characteristic of old film, with visible grain and a distinct color cast. In the distance, a lighthouse and another buoy are visible on the horizon. The camera remains stationary, capturing a peaceful moment of recreation on the water, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana.

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: 121308921

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s documentary or editorial requests for quiet Jersey Shore recreation, small-craft sailing, and ocean horizon cutaways from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color, purple cast, soft focus, and simple recreational sailboat may show a late-1960s seaside leisure scene consistent with the Ocean City, New Jersey metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from shore or a nearby vantage point, preserving an unstaged glimpse of two people sailing rather than a composed travel postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small sailboat with two occupants, calm ocean water, a hazy horizon, distant navigation markers or lighthouse forms, dark film borders, and grain.
Film character: The clip has a scanned 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft exposure, dark gate edges, slight color shift, and steady but informal framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm insert, seaside transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century coastal recreation.
Historical context: The footage reflects everyday leisure on the Atlantic shoreline, showing small-boat recreation without identifiable signage, crowds, or commercial waterfront detail.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though faces, brands, private property, and music are not apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 Ocean City New Jersey 8mm sailboat, Jersey Shore home movie ocean, small sailboat horizon, and vintage coastal recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shoreline material, then other Ocean City 1968 clips, then broader 1960s beach, boating, and Atlantic coast home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey home-movie frame showing a small sailboat offshore beneath a hazy purple sky, with distant horizon markers. — A small sailboat moves across the ocean with navigation markers or lighthouse forms faintly visible on the horizon.

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey frame with a small sailboat gliding across open water, framed by dark 8mm gate edges and a hazy horizon. — The sailboat remains small in frame as it crosses calm ocean water under a muted sky.

Ocean City, New Jersey 1968 home-movie still showing a small sailboat with two distant people against the ocean horizon. — Two distant occupants sit in a small sailboat as faint horizon markers appear beyond them.

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey 8mm frame showing the sailboat farther right, with hazy horizon detail and visible film specks. — The sailboat drifts toward the right of the frame while grain and specks mark the 8mm scan.

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