New York City New York-1946: Statue of Liberty from Ferry and Airplane

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Statue of Liberty from Ferry and Airplane — Clip Details

Vintage 1946 8mm home movie footage from New York City, New York showing a distant view of the Statue of Liberty across a bay, likely captured from a ferry. The clip features grainy, slightly faded color with visible film scratches and dust, characteristic of mid-century amateur film. The final frames transition to an aerial view from an airplane window, showing the wing above clouds, suggesting a journey to or from New York. This authentic archival footage captures post-war travel nostalgia and vintage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122715651

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New York City, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: This clip supports 1940s travel, emigration, ocean-crossing, and early commercial-air-journey requests needing brief home-movie views of the Statue of Liberty and airplane-wing footage.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s travel cues through faded 8mm color, ferry or harbor framing of the Statue of Liberty, and a passenger-window view over clouds.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a distant landmark glimpse across water to an informal airplane-window view during travel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Statue of Liberty across water, a hazy harbor horizon, dark film gate edges, airplane wings, cloud cover, sky, scratches, and dust marks.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, intermittent scratches, slight exposure shifts, and handheld home-movie instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel transition, arrival or departure insert, landmark cutaway, or memory beat linking sea passage with air travel.
Historical context: The clip visually situates postwar-era civilian travel through distant harbor sightseeing and passenger-aircraft views without identifying a specific route from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, landmark, and contextual use should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm travel footage, Statue of Liberty from ferry, vintage airplane wing over clouds, and home movie passenger view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with other 1946 New York harbor or travel clips, then with broader vintage ferry, arrival, and airplane-window sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant Statue of Liberty across a hazy harbor, seen in faded 8mm home-movie footage from the 1940s travel sequence. — Distant harbor view of the Statue of Liberty through a scratched 8mm frame.

Passenger-window view of an airplane wing above clouds in faded 8mm color footage from a 1940s travel sequence. — Airplane wing over cloud cover, filmed from a passenger seat.

A broad airplane wing fills the passenger-window view over clouds, with muted color and visible 8mm film wear. — Wing and clouds from inside an aircraft during the travel sequence.

Faded 8mm passenger-window footage shows an airplane wing angled over clouds, with scratches and dust visible in the frame. — Final airplane-window view with wing, clouds, and visible film texture.

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