Troy New York USA-1973: Coastal Resort with Hotels, Beach, and Pool

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationTroy, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Troy New York

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Coastal Resort with Hotels, Beach, and Pool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Troy, New York, USA, in 1973, showcasing a scenic coastal view from a high vantage point. The clip opens with a wide shot of a sandy beach and ocean waves, lined with mid-century modern high-rise hotels and condominiums under an overcast sky. The camera pans slightly, revealing more of the resort-style development along the shoreline. The sequence transitions to a close-up of a blue swimming pool with white tiled edges and lounge chairs, capturing the nostalgic atmosphere of a 1970s family vacation. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and light scratches, enhancing its authentic retro feel. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1970s Americana and vacation culture.

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: 122686073

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 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1973 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: Troy, New York, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits 1970s American resort and vacation documentary segments; useful as editorial context for mid-century coastal development or nostalgia-driven commercial work.
Period detail: High-rise hotel row along a sandy shoreline, angular pool design, and cooler-shifted 8mm palette are consistent with early 1970s American beach resort development.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an elevated hotel room or balcony, the filmmaker records the view and pool below — an amateur's document of a family vacation stay rather than a staged production.
What appears in frame: Sandy beach with breaking waves, row of high-rise hotels to the horizon, overcast hazy sky, pale blue swimming pool, white pool coping, tan concrete pool deck, poolside lounge chairs.
Film character: Moderate 8mm grain, color drift toward cool blue-lavender tones, small emulsion specks across pool frames, and slight vignetting at frame edges typical of consumer-grade 1970s film stock.
Edit role: Works as a wide establishing cutaway for resort or vacation sequences, or as a nostalgic insert cut in a social-history piece on 1970s American leisure and beach culture.
Historical context: The dense row of beachfront high-rise hotels reflects the rapid coastal resort construction that characterized American beach destinations in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Research note: No identifiable faces or logos detected; hotel pool and exterior are generic resort structures; title states Troy NY but footage appears to show an oceanfront resort — verify actual shoot location before editorial use.
Research search match: 1970s beach resort hotel footage, vintage vacation pool overhead shot, American coastal resort 8mm, 1970s oceanfront hotel development home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other frames from this reel; then with 1970s American coastal resort or hotel footage; then with mid-century family vacation or beach holiday themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

High-vantage 8mm shot of a coastal resort strip, circa 1973, showing beach, surf, and mid-century high-rise hotel row under a hazy overcast sky. — Beachfront hotel row seen from upper-floor vantage, circa 1973.

Overhead 8mm shot of a hotel swimming pool with white-tiled coping and poolside lounge chairs, shot from an upper floor, circa 1973. — Hotel pool from above; white coping and lounge chairs at pool edge.

8mm overhead shot of a curved hotel swimming pool with white-tiled surround and blue water, shot from an elevated balcony, circa 1973. — Curved hotel pool from above; pool shape and white-tiled edge surround visible.

8mm overhead shot of hotel pool with white coping and surrounding deck, circa 1973; a small dark figure is visible near the pool edge — identity unclear, may be a person or film artifact. — Hotel pool overhead; small unidentified figure near pool edge — verify for person present.

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