Long Island New York-1948: Houses On A Hill

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

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Houses On A Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of houses nestled atop a wooded hill in Long Island, New York. The footage, framed by the classic rounded edges of a projector screen, shows a quiet residential scene with a prominent house partially obscured by trees. The camera slowly zooms in, revealing more detail of the structure and its surroundings under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle motion blur, characteristic of mid-century amateur footage. This archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and offers a glimpse into suburban life during the late 1940s.

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: 124862017

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 suited for documentary or museum requests needing a quiet residential hilltop view as suburban or coastal context.
Period detail: The distant houses, wooded ridge, clear sky, and 8mm color rendering may show late-1940s residential development without enough detail to identify architecture or address.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a family camera pausing on a distant hillside and gently reframing the house through trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hillside, pale cliff or exposed slope, distant houses, blue sky, rounded film-frame edges, and heavy black contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries blue-biased color, soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, rounded gate corners, and minor exposure variation typical of amateur home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, memory transition, or cutaway for Long Island residential landscape in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The view places houses above dense trees and a pale bluff, offering visual context for a quiet Long Island residential setting in the postwar decade.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but visible exterior property and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1948 Long Island home movie, 8mm houses on hill, wooded residential bluff, and vintage New York suburban landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island views, then broader mid-century residential hillsides or wooded suburban landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing distant houses on a wooded hill above a pale exposed slope under blue sky. — Distant hilltop houses above trees and a pale bluff.

1948 Long Island frame with a distant house partly obscured by trees on a wooded ridge beneath a clear blue sky. — House partially hidden by trees on the ridge line.

Mid-century 8mm Long Island view centering a distant hilltop house above dense trees, with soft focus and blue color shift. — Zoomed view of a hilltop house above dense trees.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a wooded ridge, pale bluff, and partial distant buildings near the frame edges. — Wooded bluff with partial buildings at the frame edges.

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