Long Island New York-1948: The View Of The Shoreline From A Boat

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

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The View Of The Shoreline From A Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene, blue-tinted view of Long Island's shoreline from a boat. The footage shows a calm body of water stretching toward a distant landmass under a hazy sky, with subtle camera movement revealing a faint structure on the shore. The image is grainy and slightly blurred, characteristic of Super 8 film, with a dark vignette framing the scene. A thin branch briefly enters the frame, adding a touch of natural detail. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of early 20th-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: 124861914

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 documentary or educational sequences needing a quiet boat-based view of Long Island shoreline and surrounding water.
Period detail: The blue-tinted 8mm home-movie view may show mid-century waterfront conditions, with only distant low buildings and shoreline forms visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger perspective from a boat, held on water and distant land rather than a posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, hazy sky, a far shoreline, low structures, a rounded tower-like silhouette, film gate edges, and surface specks.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, slight handheld drift, and rounded 8mm frame edges that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm establishing insert, shoreline transition, travel cutaway, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents a waterfront approach or passage near Long Island without showing identifiable people, activity, signage, or a named landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious brands are visible, but location and property identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 Long Island shoreline from boat, vintage 8mm waterfront, home movie coastal view, and mid-century New York water travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1948 Long Island footage, then with broader boat, shoreline, and waterfront home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing open water and a faint distant shoreline through soft, rounded 8mm gate edges. — Open water and distant shoreline appear through a blue-tinted 8mm frame.

Soft 1948 Long Island boat view with calm water, hazy sky, and a low shoreline barely visible beyond the frame edge. — A calm, blue shoreline view holds on water and haze.

1948 Long Island shoreline seen from a boat, with low buildings or trees along the water beneath a pale blue sky. — Distant waterfront forms stretch across the horizon beyond the water.

Blue-tinted 1948 Long Island boat view showing calm water, a distant shoreline, and a rounded tower-like silhouette. — A tower-like silhouette is visible along the distant shoreline.

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