Troy New York USA-1973: An Aerial View Of A Windy Day At A Beach Near A House

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

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An Aerial View Of A Windy Day At A Beach Near A House — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing an aerial view of a tropical beach and residential property. The clip opens on a blue swimming pool with a white coping, then pans upward to reveal a palm tree swaying in the wind and a house with a curved driveway. The scene transitions to a sandy beach with gentle waves lapping the shore, where a few people are visible in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and light scratches, capturing a nostalgic, sun-drenched vacation atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122686081

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 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

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: Serves 1970s vacation and tropical lifestyle briefs needing elevated home-movie POV of poolside and beach environments from an American family holiday reel.
Period detail: Flat-roofed modernist architecture, white pool surround, and a yellow sun lounger near the pool edge suggest a 1970s resort or vacation property, consistent with the 1973 metadata date.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an upper balcony or rooftop, the filmer documents the property below with an unhurried exploratory pan, a typical amateur impulse to capture the full vacation setting.
What appears in frame: Blue rectangular swimming pool, white pool coping, yellow poolside lounge chair, palm trees with wind-blown fronds, flat-roofed white building, tropical landscaping, sandy beach, and two distant figures.
Film character: Heavy 8mm grain, scattered dust specks, a mild cyan-blue color shift, and a hairline vertical scratch visible in one frame give the footage an authentic vintage home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing cutaway or nostalgic memory insert for 1970s vacation or tropical lifestyle sequences; the beach pan with distant figures suits a closing beat.
Historical context: The modernist pool architecture and elevated shooting angle reflect 1970s American leisure culture around resort or vacation-home ownership; the specific tropical location is not confirmed by the clip metadata.
Research note: Two distant figures are visible on the beach in the final frame; the private residential pool and house are prominent throughout, both warranting editorial review before use.
Research search match: Likely found via queries such as '1970s aerial beach home movie,' 'Super 8 tropical pool vacation footage,' or 'vintage overhead beach 8mm 1970s.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel showing this property; then with 1970s tropical or resort vacation footage; then with aerial beach and pool lifestyle clips from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Overhead 8mm home-movie shot of a rectangular blue swimming pool with white-coped edges at what appears to be a tropical vacation property, circa 1973. — Aerial view straight down into a blue rectangular swimming pool.

Elevated 8mm home-movie shot of a pool corner with a yellow sun lounger and wind-blown palm fronds at a tropical vacation property, circa 1973. — Pool corner with a yellow lounge chair and wind-blown palm fronds above.

Aerial 8mm home-movie shot of a flat-roofed modernist building, tropical shrubs, and palm trees bending visibly in wind at a vacation property, circa 1973. — Flat-roofed building and palm trees bending in the wind, seen from above.

Elevated 8mm home-movie shot of a wide sandy beach with wind-bent palm trees and two small, unidentifiable distant figures near the shoreline, circa 1973. — Sandy beach with two distant figures and wind-blown palms seen from above.

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