Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Boat Sailing In A Bay By A Small Wooden Dock With

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Boat Sailing In A Bay By A Small Wooden Dock With — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Middletown Pennsylvania in 1975, showing a small fishing boat navigating a calm bay. The black and white footage captures the vessel moving past a wooden dock, with other boats visible in the distance. The grainy, slightly shaky camera work and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, typical of personal home movies from the era. A bird flies across the frame, adding motion to the serene waterfront scene.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123228188

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: 1948 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: Middletown, Pennsylvania, 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s home-movie waterfront footage for editors needing a quiet working-boat cutaway or small-harbor establishing detail.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century small craft, wooden dock structures, and distant waterfront industry, with no visible modern signage or brands in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint watches from shore or a dock as a small boat passes, giving the scene the observational feel of personal travel or family-film footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat, calm water, wooden dock railings, distant boats, shoreline industry, a flying bird, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation give the shot a scanned physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor insert, waterfront transition, maritime cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader location scenes.
Historical context: The frames place small-boat movement against a modest waterfront and distant industrial shoreline without identifying a specific facility or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm boat footage, black-and-white home movie harbor, small fishing boat by dock, and Pennsylvania waterfront archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Middletown or Pennsylvania waterfront footage from the same stated year, then small-boat or dock scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a small boat moving across calm water near dock railings in archival Middletown, Pennsylvania footage. — A small boat moves on calm water past a wooden dock, with other craft faintly visible in the distance.

Black-and-white archival frame showing a small working boat or fishing boat passing dock structures with a distant shoreline behind it. — A boat passes close to the dock area, with low shoreline structures and industrial shapes in the background.

Archival black-and-white frame of a boat moving away near dock posts, with a bird crossing over the water and distant structures behind. — The boat continues away from the camera as a bird crosses the frame over the water.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a boat near dock posts, leaving a visible wake across calm waterfront water. — A boat travels near dock posts, leaving a wake as the distant shoreline remains softly visible.

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