Long Island New York-1948: Gliding Across The Water

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Gliding Across The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene water scene from Long Island, New York. The footage shows a calm body of water under a muted blue sky, with a distant shoreline visible on the horizon. The image is framed by the classic rounded edges of an 8mm projector, with visible film grain and slight blurriness characteristic of Super 8 home movies. A small, indistinct object glides across the water, suggesting a boat or buoy. The overall mood is quiet and nostalgic, evoking mid-20th century Americana and personal memory.

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: 124861886

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: Useful for 1940s Long Island home-movie requests needing a quiet water-view insert, shoreline cutaway, or atmospheric regional establishing shot.
Period detail: The rounded 8mm frame, blue-tinted exposure, soft focus, and distant shoreline support the 1948 home-movie period context without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged observer's view across open water, held as a brief personal travel or leisure memory rather than a formal scenic study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, muted sky, a low distant shoreline, rounded projector-frame borders, film grain, and a small indistinct object on the water.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with soft focus, blue cast, visible grain, gate edges, and minor exposure variation across the brief shot.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a contemplative transition, regional water cutaway, memory beat, or understated background plate in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday postwar leisure or travel around Long Island waterways, though the frames do not identify a specific site, vessel, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island water footage, vintage shoreline home movie, 1940s coastal cutaway, and archival calm water scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island material, then similar vintage water, shoreline, and travel-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing calm water, hazy sky, distant shore, and dark rounded film-gate borders. — Open water and a distant shoreline appear through rounded 8mm frame edges.

1948 Long Island water view with a faint shore on the horizon and a small indistinct object on the right, seen through 8mm gate edges. — A small indistinct object sits on or moves across the water near the distant shore.

A soft 1948 Long Island shoreline view shows calm water, pale sky, and rounded 8mm frame edges with visible film texture. — The camera holds on calm water with a low shoreline across the horizon.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame of blue-toned water and a far shoreline, softened by grain, exposure, and rounded 8mm borders. — Blue-toned water fills the frame below a distant shoreline and hazy sky.

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