Long Island New York-1948: Vintage Recording Of A Lighthouse With An Ocean View

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

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Vintage Recording Of A Lighthouse With An Ocean View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a distant lighthouse on Long Island, New York, silhouetted against a deep blue twilight sky. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows a calm ocean stretching to the horizon, with the lighthouse standing as a solitary beacon. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, contemplative view of the coastal landscape. The image gradually darkens, suggesting the transition from dusk to night, with the lighthouse fading into the shadows. This archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and historical serenity, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124861964

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 8mm coastal home-movie footage for documentary inserts needing a quiet Long Island lighthouse or ocean horizon view.
Period detail: The distant lighthouse, open water, blue cast, and simple fixed framing may show a mid-century amateur travel or shoreline view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the distant shoreline without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a low shoreline, a distant lighthouse or tower form, blue twilight sky, film gate edges, and soft 8mm grain.
Film character: The footage has a blue-tinted 8mm look with visible grain, soft focus, rounded frame edges, and slight exposure darkening across the short shot.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a contemplative cutaway, coastal transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for Long Island shoreline material.
Historical context: The view documents a quiet coastal landscape as seen by a home-movie camera, with no visible crowds, vehicles, signage, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but lighthouse identification, location specificity, and copyright status should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1948 Long Island lighthouse 8mm footage, vintage ocean horizon home movie, and 1940s coastal landmark film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1948 Long Island shoreline footage, then broader lighthouse, ocean, and twilight coastal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing calm water, low shoreline, and a distant lighthouse or tower shape in soft blue light. — A distant lighthouse or tower stands across calm water on the Long Island shoreline.

Blue-tinted 8mm view of water and a low Long Island shoreline, with a faint distant tower or lighthouse form near the horizon. — The shoreline and a faint vertical landmark are visible through the blue cast of the film.

1948 Long Island coastal frame with a dark low shoreline, calm water, and blue-tinted 8mm grain as the view fades darker. — The low shoreline sits near the horizon as the short coastal view darkens.

Blue-toned 1948 Long Island shoreline view, with calm water and a low horizon fading into a darker 8mm exposure. — A quiet water-and-shoreline view closes the clip as the exposure appears darker.

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