New York City-1958: Ships Traveling Through The Blue Ocean Where There Is

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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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Ships Traveling Through The Blue Ocean Where There Is — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the blue ocean from a moving vessel. Through a window frame, distant islands and a hazy coastline appear under a pale sky, with small ships dotting the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel memory. The scene suggests a coastal journey, possibly near New York City, with natural scenery and maritime activity. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic 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: 124558378

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 maritime travel footage for documentary inserts, coastal journey transitions, or archival scenes needing a vessel-window view over open water.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century passenger or sightseeing vessel perspective, with dark window framing, distant shoreline, small boats, and faded 8mm color supporting the 1958 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a passenger's unstaged glance through a vessel window, favoring the quiet experience of travel over a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, dark window mullions, distant low islands or shoreline, pale sky, small boats, haze, and occasional shoreline smoke or industrial-looking forms.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, blue-purple shift, handheld framing from a moving vessel, and exposure changes that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or contextual insert between city, harbor, or coastal journey scenes.
Historical context: The view situates the viewer in a leisure or transit moment on the water, with distant boats and shoreline features suggesting active coastal movement without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but location and vessel context should still be verified separately from copyright and property considerations.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm ocean from vessel, New York City harbor home movie, vintage coastline through window, and mid-century maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 New York City or harbor material, and finally with related ocean travel, ships, and coastal scenery footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie view from a vessel window toward blue water, hazy low shoreline, and small distant boats near New York City. — A vessel-window view looks across blue water toward distant low land and small boats.

Blue water and a hazy coastline appear through the vessel window, with small boats scattered near the horizon in 1958 New York City footage. — Small boats sit near a hazy shoreline beyond the dark window frame.

A soft 8mm frame shows blue water, a hazy distant coastline, and dark vessel-window edges during a 1958 coastal passage near New York City. — The moving vessel frames a hazy shoreline across the water.

Through the vessel window, blue water, small boats, and a distant hazy shoreline are visible, with a dark foreground shape entering the 8mm frame. — A dark foreground shape intrudes as the view opens across water toward the hazy shore.

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