Long Island New York-1948: Large Steamship Sailing On The Ocean

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

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Large Steamship Sailing On The Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger steamship sailing across the ocean near Long Island, New York. The footage shows the vessel from a distance, its white hull and prominent smokestack visible against a deep blue sea and sky. The sequence begins with a view from a dock, then follows the ship as it moves across the water, eventually receding into the distance at dusk. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime travel and transportation.

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: 124862327

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: Useful for 1940s maritime travel, Long Island coastal transportation, or mid-century ocean passage cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The white multi-deck passenger steamship, single smokestack, and distant harbor setting support the supplied 1948 Long Island home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the vessel from shore or another waterfront vantage point without staged action or visible passengers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white steamship, dark smokestack, blue ocean, low horizon, distant shoreline, open sky, film frame edges, and contact-sheet divisions.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight gate weave, and handheld framing that add period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime insert, transportation cutaway, coastal transition, or reflective memory beat about postwar travel.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a large passenger vessel offshore near Long Island, reflecting the prominence of water travel in mid-century coastal life without identifying the ship.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but ship identity and underlying footage rights should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island steamship footage, vintage passenger ship at sea, mid-century ocean travel, and archival home-movie maritime scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1948 Long Island waterfront footage, then with vintage ships, ocean travel, docks, ferries, and coastal transportation themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant white passenger steamship crosses blue water near Long Island in 1948 home-movie footage. — Distant steamship moving across open water with a low shoreline behind it.

The white steamship remains centered offshore, with its smokestack visible against the blue sky. — Mid-distance view of the steamship traveling across the water.

A 1948 Long Island home-movie frame shows the white passenger steamship lower in frame over textured blue water. — Steamship passing along the horizon with water filling the foreground.

The passenger steamship appears farther across the water, with shoreline details faintly visible behind it. — Steamship continuing offshore against a blue sky and distant coast.

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