Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Day At The Boat

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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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Day At The Boat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, USA, in 1968, captured from the bow of a motorboat. The clip shows a forward view across choppy blue water, with a distant shoreline featuring buildings and a lighthouse. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a purple tint, with a curved metal arch framing the view. The boat moves steadily, offering a nostalgic perspective of a summer day on the water.

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: 121310185

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 New Jersey shore home-movie footage for edits needing a short motorboat point-of-view across bay water near Ocean City.
Period detail: The small motorboat bow, distant low-rise shoreline, and 8mm color stock may show a late-1960s coastal leisure scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip offers an unstaged passenger perspective from the bow as the boat moves steadily over choppy water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue bay water, a white boat bow, curved metal rail, distant shoreline buildings, a small structure on pilings, and a far lighthouse-like tower.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, exposure variation, and a purple-blue color shift typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, waterfront transition, or memory beat establishing a boat trip near Ocean City.
Historical context: The view documents recreational boating and shoreline development as seen by a home-movie camera, without showing identifiable people or activity on shore.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location, shoreline structures, copyright, and property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 Ocean City New Jersey boat footage, 8mm motorboat bow view, New Jersey shore home movie, and 1960s coastal waterway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel boating shots, then other 1968 Ocean City material, then broader 1960s shore and recreational boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey home-movie frame showing choppy bay water from a boat, with shoreline buildings and a small structure on pilings. — Boat-level view across choppy water toward shoreline buildings and a structure on pilings.

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey frame from the bow of a motorboat, with a curved rail, bay water, and distant shoreline buildings. — Forward view over the bow of a motorboat toward a low distant shoreline.

Aged 8mm frame from a motorboat in Ocean City, New Jersey, showing the bow rail against bay water and distant shoreline buildings. — Motorboat bow and rail frame the distant shoreline across the water.

1968 Ocean City, New Jersey home-movie frame with a motorboat bow, curved metal rail, and low buildings beyond the bay. — Forward motorboat view with curved rail and shoreline buildings on the horizon.

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