Long Island New York-1948: Lighthouse And Buildings On A Coastal Hillside

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

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Lighthouse And Buildings On A Coastal Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal view of Long Island, New York, from across the water. The footage shows a white lighthouse and several buildings nestled among trees on a grassy hillside, with a sandy shoreline and calm water in the foreground. The image is framed by the dark border of a film projector, with visible scratches and grain characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Americana.

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: 124861864

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Long Island home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum edits needing a brief coastal lighthouse and shoreline establishing view.
Period detail: The frame may show a mid-century coastal landscape with a white lighthouse, low buildings, open hillside, sandy shore, and calm water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from across the water, observing the landmark and hillside without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a sandy shoreline, eroded bluff, grassy hillside, trees, a white lighthouse, and several low buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-green color shift, visible grain, gate edges, dust, and scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, coastal transition, location cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Long Island sequence.
Historical context: The view places a lighthouse and shoreline buildings within a sparsely developed coastal setting, offering visual context for Long Island in the late 1940s.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or landmark restrictions for their use.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1948 Long Island 8mm lighthouse footage, vintage New York coastal home movie, and 1940s shoreline landmark view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island footage, then broader vintage lighthouse or coastal Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island view of a white lighthouse and low buildings on a grassy coastal hillside beyond calm water. — A lighthouse and hillside buildings are seen from across the water.

Distant 1948 Long Island coastal view with a lighthouse, trees, shoreline bluff, and calm water in the foreground. — The lighthouse stands above the shoreline as the water fills the lower frame.

Soft 8mm frame of the Long Island shoreline, showing water, an eroded bluff, trees, and distant hillside structures. — The camera view shifts along the shoreline, emphasizing the bluff and distant structures.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame with a lighthouse, clustered hillside buildings, trees, sandy shore, and water. — A steadier view frames the lighthouse, buildings, hillside, beach, and water together.

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