Long Island New York-1948: Lighthouse at Marina Entrance

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationLong Island, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Lighthouse at Marina Entrance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a hazy, sun-drenched view of a lighthouse at the entrance to a small marina on Long Island, New York. The footage, filmed from across the water, shows a white lighthouse standing atop a grassy hill surrounded by trees and residential buildings. The image is grainy and slightly out of focus, with visible film scratches and a soft blue-green color cast typical of mid-century home movies. The camera remains mostly steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet coastal community during the postwar era.

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: 124861854

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 1072 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: ny, boat
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: long island
Date: 1948 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: Long Island, 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: Useful for 1940s coastal Long Island establishing footage, especially documentary or museum edits needing a brief waterfront lighthouse and marina reference.
Period detail: The frames show a white lighthouse, low waterfront buildings, trees, and a quiet shoreline that may reflect a mid-century resort or marina setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot view from across the water, observing the lighthouse and shoreline without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lighthouse on a grassy rise, shoreline buildings, trees, a small marina area, calm water, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, blue-green color, mild exposure haze, gate edges, dust, and scratches give the 8mm footage a clear physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, coastal transition, marina cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a postwar Long Island sequence.
Historical context: The view places a lighthouse and waterfront homes within a quiet coastal landscape, suggesting leisure, navigation, and residential shoreline life without showing activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any visible property context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island lighthouse footage, vintage marina entrance view, coastal New York home movie, and postwar waterfront cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront shots, then other 1948 Long Island clips, then broader lighthouse, marina, canal, or coastal community footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a distant white lighthouse, trees, shoreline buildings, and water in soft focus. — Distant lighthouse and waterfront buildings across the canal or marina entrance.

Distant Long Island lighthouse on a grassy rise, with trees and low waterfront buildings below in hazy 8mm color. — Lighthouse above a quiet shoreline with marina structures below.

1948 Long Island shoreline view with low marina buildings, trees, a grassy hill, and calm water, framed by 8mm gate edges. — Small waterfront structures and hillside near the lighthouse setting.

Long Island coastal frame showing a white lighthouse near houses and trees above a shoreline slope, with water in the foreground. — Lighthouse and nearby houses on a coastal rise above the water.

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