Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Fishing Boat Navigating Harbor

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Fishing Boat Navigating Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a small fishing boat navigating a harbor on a cloudy day. The black-and-white footage shows the vessel moving through the water, leaving a wake, with a larger industrial ship visible in the background. The scene is viewed through the characteristic frame of a home movie projector, with visible grain and soft focus. In the final frames, two people stand on a dock, watching the boat pass. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of maritime life in Middletown, Pennsylvania, with a quiet, observational mood.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123228205

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 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

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: Supports requests for late-1940s home-movie harbor footage, small working boats, and observational maritime cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The small working boat, industrial vessel in the distance, dock railings, and monochrome 8mm texture may show a postwar harbor scene without enough detail to identify exact vessels or facilities.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the boat passing from a dockside position, with two bystanders briefly visible watching the harbor activity rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small fishing or work boat, wake on calm water, dock railings, distant industrial ship, shoreline structures, cloudy sky, and two dockside figures.
Film character: The clip has black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and a contact-print feel that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor insert, maritime transition, industrial-waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader location scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents everyday waterfront movement and spectatorship, showing a small boat passing an industrial harbor setting without establishing a named shipyard or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are readable, and copyright, vessel identity, and location verification remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm harbor boat, black-and-white home movie fishing boat, dockside spectators, and Pennsylvania waterfront archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Middletown or Pennsylvania footage from 1948, then broader harbor, small boat, and industrial waterfront scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a small working boat crossing harbor water near Middletown, Pennsylvania, with an industrial vessel beyond it. — A small boat passes through calm harbor water, leaving a wake below a distant industrial ship.

The small harbor boat continues past the camera in black-and-white 8mm footage, with a larger industrial vessel and shoreline behind it. — The boat moves farther across the harbor while the larger vessel remains in the background.

Dockside view of a small boat moving through the harbor, with two distant people watching from the railing in this 1948 home-movie frame. — Two dockside figures watch as the small boat travels past the railing and across the water.

The boat moves farther along the harbor in a soft black-and-white 8mm frame, with two dockside figures visible in the foreground. — The harbor boat recedes past the dock as two figures remain near the railing in the foreground.

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