Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Boat Ride On Calm Waters With Dock And Distant Shoreline

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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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Boat Ride On Calm Waters With Dock And Distant Shoreline — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a boat journey on a calm day. The clip opens with a view from the boat, featuring a wooden ladder and a dock with buildings in the background. The scene transitions to open water, with gentle waves and a distant shoreline visible under a clear sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural light, capturing a nostalgic, personal moment of travel and leisure. The footage is ideal for historical, editorial, or nostalgic content.

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: 121309876

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 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: 1960s Ocean City, New Jersey home-movie footage for productions needing a brief coastal boat-ride insert or shoreline travel cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1960s recreational boat view with dockside buildings, open water, and a low distant shoreline rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot perspective from aboard a moving boat, focused on the ride, water, and shore rather than posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boat ladder, dock pilings, waterfront buildings, blue open water, small waves, wake foam, distant shore, and clear sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color shift, gate edges, dust marks, and handheld framing typical of home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal transition, travel-memory beat, water cutaway, or establishing insert between stronger Ocean City scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-century leisure travel seen from a small boat, with the shoreline kept distant and the dock briefly visible at the start.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Ocean City New Jersey boat ride, 8mm shore footage, vintage home movie open water, and 1960s coastal travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Ocean City material, then broader 1960s boating, beach, and shoreline home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey boat view with a wooden ladder in the foreground, dock pilings, calm water, and low waterfront buildings. — A boat passes near a dock with a ladder and waterfront buildings visible beyond the water.

Open water off Ocean City, New Jersey, with boat wake in the foreground and a low distant shoreline beneath a clear blue sky. — The view shifts from the dock to open water and a distant shoreline.

1968 coastal boat-ride frame showing blue water, white wake foam, and a low shoreline in the distance near Ocean City, New Jersey. — Wake foam trails across the lower frame as the shoreline remains distant.

Final boat-ride view over open water toward a distant Ocean City shoreline, with a small part of the boat visible at lower right. — The boat continues across open water with the shore low on the horizon.

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