Long Island New York-1948: Boat Sailing Sightseeing Tour Past Hilltop Building and Marina

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

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Boat Sailing Sightseeing Tour Past Hilltop Building and... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene boat journey along Long Island's coastline. The footage shows a distant view of a white building perched atop a tree-covered hill, followed by a quiet waterfront community with houses nestled among trees. The final frames reveal a marina with boats docked and a tall mast flying a flag, all viewed through the characteristic rounded frame of an 8mm projector. The blue-tinted, grainy visuals evoke a nostalgic, mid-century Americana atmosphere.

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: 124862063

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: Supports 1940s Long Island coastal travel, boating, and waterfront community requests for documentary inserts, museum programs, or period atmosphere cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century shoreline development, small docks, moored boats, and a hilltop building seen from the water in 1948 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a passenger or visitor filming from a moving sightseeing boat, lingering on shoreline features rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, wooded hills, distant houses, a white hilltop building, docks, moored boats, a marina mast, and flags.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows rounded frame edges, blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, and slight handheld motion typical of amateur home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm coastal establishing insert, travel transition, marina cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Long Island or boating sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for leisure sightseeing along a developed but tree-lined Long Island waterfront in the late 1940s.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but waterfront buildings and boats should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and location identification issues.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1948 Long Island 8mm home movie, New York coastal boat tour, vintage marina footage, and 1940s waterfront community.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island waterfront material, then broader vintage boating, marina, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm view from the water toward a white hilltop building above a wooded shoreline. — A white building sits on a tree-covered hill beyond the shoreline.

Long Island waterfront houses and wooded hills seen from a moving boat in 1948 8mm footage. — Low shoreline buildings and homes appear across the water below wooded hills.

A distant Long Island waterfront neighborhood appears across calm water in this 1948 home-movie frame. — A small waterfront community is visible across the bay or inlet.

1948 Long Island marina view with docked boats, a tall mast, and flags beside a wooded waterfront. — Docked boats, a mast, and flags mark a small marina along the shore.

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