Long Island New York-1948: Statue of Liberty Viewed from Clifftop House

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

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Statue of Liberty Viewed from Clifftop House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of the Statue of Liberty from a house perched atop a cliff on Long Island, New York. The footage, framed by the classic rounded edges of a Super 8 projector, shows the iconic landmark across the water under a clear blue sky, with gentle waves visible in the foreground. The image quality reflects the era’s film stock, with soft focus and a distinct blue color cast. The final frames reveal a large house nestled among trees on the cliffside, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century coastal life and a classic American landmark.

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: 124862005

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 useful for documentary inserts about coastal New York, distant landmark viewing, and postwar domestic travel records.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1948 visitor or resident view, with distant shoreline architecture, a wooded cliffside house, and the Statue of Liberty seen across open water.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a home-movie observation, holding a distant landmark view before shifting to the cliffside house and surrounding trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a distant Statue of Liberty silhouette, low shoreline, wooded cliff, light-colored bluff, large house, sky, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm film has soft focus, blue color cast, visible grain, rounded gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserves the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, memory beat, or transition between Long Island domestic life and New York Harbor landmark imagery.
Historical context: The footage places a famous public landmark within a private coastal viewpoint, suggesting how mid-century home movies recorded travel, scenery, and household surroundings.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, landmark depiction, and any distant property context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1948 8mm Long Island home movie, Statue of Liberty from shore, New York Harbor distant view, and cliffside house archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island or New York Harbor clips, then broader coastal home-movie and landmark-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing the Statue of Liberty far across blue water under a bright sky. — Distant view of the Statue of Liberty across the water.

Distant Statue of Liberty viewed from Long Island across open water, framed by the rounded edge of 8mm film. — The landmark appears small on the horizon beyond the water.

Long Island cliffside house among trees above pale bluffs, recorded in soft 1948 home-movie footage. — A house sits above the wooded cliff and pale shoreline bluffs.

A distant Long Island house sits among dark trees on a cliff above the shoreline in a soft 8mm frame. — The camera lingers on the cliffside house and wooded shoreline.

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