New York City-1958: Small Village Close To A Harbor

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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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Small Village Close To A Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal village from a moving vehicle. The footage begins with a view of a calm harbor, featuring a small island and a distant bridge under a hazy sky, framed by a dark window border. As the camera moves, the scene shifts to a rustic village with thatched-roof houses and dirt paths, where a few people walk along the road. The landscape includes rolling hills and utility poles, all rendered in the characteristic grain and color palette of 1950s Super 8 film. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of rural life and coastal scenery, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124558249

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1958 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief coastal-village harbor view with rural roads, hills and passing vehicle perspective.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural coastal life through thatched or dark-roofed buildings, dirt paths, utility poles and a harbor seen from a moving vehicle.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged travel viewpoint, with the camera catching harbor scenery and village activity from behind a dark window or vehicle frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a small island or headland, rolling hills, utility poles, dirt roads, low village buildings and a few distant pedestrians.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, motion blur and window framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, travel transition, coastal memory beat or rural-life cutaway within a 1950s archival sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for a small waterside settlement and surrounding hills without proving the exact community, route or social conditions shown.
Research note: People appear small and indistinct, so likeness risk seems limited but should be reviewed separately from copyright and any location or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 8mm coastal village, home movie harbor from vehicle, rural waterside settlement and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with New York or 1958 travel material, then with harbor villages, rural roads and coastal landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie view of a calm harbor, distant landforms and utility poles framed by a dark vehicle or window edge. — Harbor and hills pass behind a dark window frame.

A coastal landform across calm water appears beyond foreground utility poles in this 1958 home-movie travel shot. — Coastal landform and water viewed from a moving position.

A small village with low buildings, a dirt road and a distant pedestrian appears below hills in the 1958 8mm footage. — Village buildings and a dirt road below the hillside.

A moving 8mm view shows low rural buildings, a dirt path and hillside terrain, with people only indistinct if present. — Low village buildings pass by as the camera moves.

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