Long Island New York-1948: White Lighthouse Overlooking The Sea

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

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White Lighthouse Overlooking The Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal scene from Long Island, New York. A white lighthouse stands atop a grassy hill, overlooking the sea, with a white house nestled beside it. The footage, viewed through a film projector's frame, shows natural film grain, scratches, and a slightly faded blue-green color palette. The final frames pan across the calm ocean under an overcast sky, evoking a quiet, nostalgic mood. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 124861876

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 coastal home-movie footage for editors needing a lighthouse, shoreline, or quiet ocean cutaway in documentary or educational work.
Period detail: The distant white lighthouse, coastal houses, muted color, and 8mm framing support a mid-20th-century home-movie view without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a coastal landmark and then drifting toward the open water rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white lighthouse, hillside buildings, sandy shoreline, grassy bluff, open sea, distant land, overcast sky, and projector-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, blue-green fading, visible grain, dust, scratches, and contact-frame edges that preserve the physical 8mm viewing texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, coastal transition, location memory beat, or quiet visual pause between Long Island archive scenes.
Historical context: The footage records a leisure-era shoreline view in which the lighthouse and nearby structures are seen from across water or beach distance.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location identification, and property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Long Island lighthouse footage, 8mm coastal home movie, New York shoreline archive, and vintage ocean cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel coastal shots, then other 1948 Long Island material, then lighthouse, beach, ocean, and home-movie travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing a white lighthouse and nearby buildings on a grassy bluff above the sea. — A white lighthouse and coastal buildings sit above the shoreline in a distant 8mm view.

Distant Long Island lighthouse scene on faded 8mm film, with houses on a bluff and beach below. — The lighthouse remains centered above the shore, with film scratches and soft color visible.

1948 8mm coastal view from Long Island showing calm water and a low distant landform beneath an overcast sky. — The view shifts away from the lighthouse toward open water and a distant shoreline.

Faded 8mm Long Island coastal frame showing calm sea, distant land, and overcast blue-gray sky. — The final frame holds on the quiet ocean horizon with distant land barely visible.

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