Albany New York-1964: Boat In The River

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

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Boat In The River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat navigating a wide river in Albany, New York. The footage shows the boat moving across choppy water, leaving a white wake behind, with a tree-lined shore visible in the distance. The scene is rendered in the characteristic blue and purple color cast of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and soft focus. The dark, shadowed edges suggest the clip was filmed through a window or from a fixed position, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century river transportation and leisure.

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: 123810071

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 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: Supports 1960s editorial requests for Albany, New York river travel, small craft, or home-movie views of inland waterways.
Period detail: The small motorboat, distant tree-lined shore, and 8mm color stock may show mid-1960s recreational or local river traffic without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer perspective, likely filmed from a fixed or sheltered position while tracking a boat across rough water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, white wake, choppy river surface, distant wooded shoreline, dark frame edges, and soft horizon lines.
Film character: Aged 8mm texture appears in blue-purple color shift, soft focus, heavy grain, exposure variation, and dark gate or window-like edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for river travel, leisure boating, or place-setting in 1960s Albany material.
Historical context: The clip visually situates a small boat on a broad river near Albany, offering modest social context for mid-century waterfront recreation or transport.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any shoreline property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 Albany New York 8mm river boat footage, vintage home movie motorboat wake, or 1960s Hudson-area waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Albany material, then other 1964 Albany or New York river scenes, then broader 1960s boating and waterway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Albany, New York home-movie frame showing a small motorboat moving across rough river water near a distant wooded shore. — A small motorboat moves across choppy river water with a low shoreline beyond.

1964 Albany, New York 8mm frame with a small motorboat and wake on a wide river below a soft, dark shoreline. — The boat continues across the water, its wake visible against the dark river surface.

Soft 1964 Albany river view with a small distant boat low in frame and heavy blue-purple 8mm grain. — The boat appears distant near the bottom of the frame as the river fills most of the view.

1964 Albany home-movie frame showing a faint small boat on a wide river, with wooded shoreline and bright sky beyond. — A faint boat sits low on the river beneath a distant wooded shoreline.

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