Long Island New York-1948: Distant House on Tree-Covered Hill

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

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Distant House on Tree-Covered Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this grainy home movie captures a serene evening view from Long Island, New York. The footage shows a distant house perched atop a tree-covered hill, overlooking a body of water. The sky is a deep blue twilight, and the image has a distinct vintage quality with film grain and soft focus. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, nostalgic glimpse of a mid-century residential landscape.

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: 124862035

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary edits needing a quiet Long Island residential landscape, dusk shoreline view, or mid-century home-movie establishing shot.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, distant hillside residence, wooded shoreline, and simple waterfront composition may show a late-1940s suburban or country setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged home-movie glance from across water, holding on a distant house and wooded hill rather than documenting an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue evening sky, dark tree-covered hillside, a distant light-colored house, shoreline, water, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, blue twilight exposure, slight frame jitter, and contact-sheet framing that give it strong physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, shoreline cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s Long Island sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests residential development set into a wooded waterfront landscape, but the frames do not identify the house, town, or occupants.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1948 Long Island 8mm hillside house, vintage waterfront home movie, dusk wooded shoreline, and 1940s residential landscape may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island material, then broader 1940s waterfront, wooded hill, or residential landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing a distant house on a tree-covered hill above shoreline and water at dusk. — A distant hillside house sits above a dark wooded shoreline in blue evening light.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame with a distant residence on a dark tree-covered hill overlooking water. — The camera holds on a far hillside residence framed by trees and twilight sky.

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing a distant pale structure on a wooded hillside above a strip of water. — A pale distant structure appears across the water on the wooded hillside.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame with a distant hillside structure, dark trees, water foreground, and blue dusk sky. — The closing frame keeps the distant hillside structure centered across the water.

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