New York City-1958: A Large Water Area Between The Mountains And Boats Sailing

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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A Large Water Area Between The Mountains And Boats Sailing — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping coastal landscape viewed through a window frame. Rolling green hills in the foreground lead to a large body of water with several boats sailing across. Distant mountains rise under a hazy blue sky, with power lines and poles visible along the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, documentary-style feel, evoking mid-century American travel and leisure. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124558216

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: New York City, 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: 1950s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a coastal water-and-mountain establishing view with boats and a window-framed home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century travel infrastructure through utility poles, overhead lines, small boats, rolling shoreline hills, and color 8mm exposure from the 1958 source metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming through a window, holding on scenery rather than staging action or identifying people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window mullions, green and tan hills, a broad water area, distant mountains, small boats, utility poles, overhead wires, and hazy blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, gate framing, dust marks, and slight handheld drift that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific 1950s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a leisure-travel gaze toward water, boats, hills, and mountains, with utility lines placing the landscape within a lived shoreline environment.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but location identity and any copyright or property questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm coastal landscape, home movie boats on water, mountains across bay, window-framed travel view, and mid-century shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 New York-area travel views, then with broader 1950s water, boats, mountains, and vacation landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm window-framed travel view of rolling hills, a broad water area, distant mountains, and small boats in hazy light. — A dark window frame divides a distant mountain-and-water view with low hills and small boats.

1958 8mm view across a broad water area toward mountains, with small boats, shoreline hills, and a foreground utility pole. — Small boats sit on the water below distant mountains, with a pole and low hills in front.

1958 8mm shoreline view with water, distant mountains, small boats, foreground hills, utility poles, and overhead wires. — Foreground poles and wires cross a coastal landscape of hills, water, boats, and distant mountains.

1958 8mm travel view across water toward low hills and distant mountains, with small boats and utility poles in the foreground. — Utility poles and wires stand before a wide water-and-mountain view with several small boats.

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