New York City-1958: A Speed Boat Traveling Across The Ocean On A Sunny Day

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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 Speed Boat Traveling Across The Ocean On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene ocean view from a moving vessel. The frame is bordered by a dark window or porthole, with a vast blue sea stretching to the horizon under a hazy sky. In the distance, a small boat and faint landmass with industrial smokestacks are visible, suggesting coastal travel. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, dreamlike quality. The scene evokes a sense of calm, mid-century travel and maritime exploration, perfect 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: 124558403

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: 1958 New York City-area 8mm home-movie footage for maritime travel inserts, coastal establishing shots, or mid-century sea-crossing context.
Period detail: The distant shoreline and smokestack-like industrial forms may show mid-century harbor infrastructure, viewed through a dark window or porthole frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger-shot perspective from a moving vessel, preserving the casual observation of open water and shoreline rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean, hazy sky, distant shoreline, small boat shapes, industrial stacks, dark window bars, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, cool color shift, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and a handheld travel-film steadiness.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, waterborne transition, or memory beat between city, harbor, and travel sequences.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure or transit on coastal waters near New York City, with industrial shoreline details kept distant and indistinct.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s 8mm ocean view, New York City harbor home movie, vintage boat travel, and mid-century coastal water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with 1958 New York City travel shots, then with vintage harbor, boat, and ocean-view footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York City-area 8mm view across blue water toward a hazy distant shoreline, framed by dark vessel-window edges. — Distant shoreline seen across blue water from a moving vessel.

1958 New York City-area coastal water view with faint shoreline, possible small vessels, and dark window framing from onboard travel footage. — Coastal water and faint shoreline framed from inside or beside a vessel.

1958 8mm travel footage looking over open blue water and a level horizon, with dark frame edges and visible film texture. — Open water and horizon during a vessel passage.

1958 8mm ocean view from a moving vessel, showing textured blue water, pale sky, and dark framing at the edge of the shot. — Blue water fills the frame beneath a hazy horizon.

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