New York City New York-1946: Calm Harbor with Wooden Pier and Buildings

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

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Calm Harbor with Wooden Pier and Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a quiet harbor scene in the Netherlands. A long wooden pier extends into calm water, leading toward a cluster of buildings on a sandy shore under a clear sky. The footage shows signs of age with film grain, scratches, and slight blurriness, characteristic of Super 8 home movies. A title card appears, reading 'Congested New York Harbor,' suggesting a possible mislabeled or mixed archive. The overall mood is nostalgic and still, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century coastal life.

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: 123140606

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 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: Useful for requests needing 1940s 8mm harbor or coastal insert footage, especially when an editor can accommodate a title-card mismatch within archival context.
Period detail: The visible wooden pier, sandy shoreline, simple waterfront buildings, and typed title card may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with the 1946 date supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, holding briefly on a quiet pier and then on a handmade or typed title card rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a long wooden pier, sandy shore, low buildings, clear sky, dark film borders, and a purple title card reading Congested New York Harbor.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, grain, scratches, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that preserve the physical texture of a home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor cutaway, location transition, title-card insert, or ambiguous travel-memory beat in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The harbor view suggests quiet coastal infrastructure and leisure or travel observation, while the title card creates a documented labeling inconsistency needing context.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the title-card wording and possible location mismatch should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm harbor footage, Netherlands coastal pier home movie, vintage waterfront title card, and mislabeled archive reel harbor scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Netherlands or 1946 waterfront material, then with broader mid-century harbor and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 archival harbor view, supported by metadata, showing a wooden pier, calm water, sandy shore, low buildings, and clear sky. — A quiet harbor scene with a wooden pier reaching toward a sandy waterfront.

Purple 8mm title card reading Congested New York Harbor, creating a visible label mismatch with the supplied Netherlands metadata. — A title card reads Congested New York Harbor.

Centered title card on purple stock, reading Congested New York Harbor, with visible grain and uneven 8mm exposure. — The title card remains centered with dark frame edges visible.

Final visible title-card frame reading Congested New York Harbor, with soft focus, purple paper texture, and dark 8mm frame border. — The same harbor title card appears again near the end of the clip.

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