Albany New York-1964: Motorboat Navigates Choppy Waters

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Motorboat Navigates Choppy Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat navigating choppy waters near the Albany, New York shoreline. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows the boat moving across the waves, leaving a white wake behind. The dark, silhouetted landmass in the background suggests a river or bay setting. The image quality reflects the era's home movie aesthetic, with visible film grain and soft focus, evoking a sense of nostalgia and personal memory from a classic American summer.

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: 123810054

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: Albany, 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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage of a small motorboat on rough water near Albany, useful for documentary inserts about leisure boating, riverside travel, or regional summer memory.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, small open motorboat, and shoreline silhouette support a 1964 home-movie context, while no visible landmark confirms the exact Albany setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from shore or another fixed vantage as the boat crosses choppy water, preserving an unstaged family or visitor record of a brief boating moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, white wake, choppy dark water, low distant shoreline, blue-tinted sky, film gate edges, and soft focus.
Film character: The clip has blue-shifted 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that give the scene a distinctly physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transitional river shot, or memory beat for mid-1960s boating, shoreline recreation, or home-movie atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage suggests recreational boating on a broad waterway in the Albany area, but the frames do not identify a specific river, landmark, event, or vessel.
Research note: People are flagged visible on the boat, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from subject releases.
Research search match: Search matches include 1964 8mm motorboat on choppy water, Albany New York home movie boating, 1960s river recreation footage, and vintage small boat wake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Albany footage, and then with broader 1960s boating, shoreline, or summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Albany-area 8mm frame showing a small motorboat crossing rough water with a low shoreline in the background. — A small motorboat cuts across choppy water, leaving a pale wake near the distant shoreline.

1964 Albany-area home-movie frame of a small boat on rough water, seen through soft blue 8mm film texture. — The boat continues over uneven water as bright foam cuts across the lower edge of the frame.

1964 Albany-area 8mm still with a small motorboat crossing dark, textured water beneath a faint shoreline. — The motorboat sits against dark rippling water, with the shoreline barely defined through the soft exposure.

1964 Albany-area home-movie frame showing a small motorboat above bright wake lines on choppy water. — Bright foam and wake patterns fill the foreground as the boat moves across the water.

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