Long Island New York-1948: View Of A Large Vessel Off Of An Ocean Coast At Night

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

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View Of A Large Vessel Off Of An Ocean Coast At Night — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a large vessel at sea off the coast of Long Island, New York, during twilight. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows the ship moving across the dark ocean, viewed from a pier with wooden posts in the foreground. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic mood, with the distant vessel appearing as a solitary silhouette against the deep blue sky. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of maritime activity from the late 1940s, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124862343

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 8mm Long Island coastal footage useful for documentary inserts about maritime activity, ocean travel, or home-movie views of vessels at sea.
Period detail: The blue exposure, distant vessel silhouette, and wooden pier posts may show a late-1940s shoreline viewpoint filmed from a dock or waterfront edge.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the distant vessel from shore rather than staging action or focusing on identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark ocean horizon, a large distant vessel, smaller boat shapes, wooden pier posts, blue twilight sky, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color cast, coarse grain, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, quiet coastal transition, or brief memory beat between Long Island shoreline or ocean-travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places maritime movement offshore in a domestic home-movie record, without identifying the vessel, operator, or exact coastal point.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches this may answer include 1948 Long Island 8mm ocean vessel, vintage home movie ship offshore, and 1940s twilight coastal boat footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island waterfront material, then broader vintage ocean, boat, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a distant vessel offshore beyond dark wooden pier posts in blue twilight light. — A distant vessel sits near the horizon beyond pier posts on the Long Island coast.

Blue 8mm frame of a large offshore vessel viewed across dark water from a Long Island pier or waterfront edge. — The vessel appears farther right on the horizon, with pier posts visible below.

1948 Long Island coastal frame with blue water, distant vessel or shoreline forms, and a dark foreground pier edge. — Low offshore shapes and a small vessel form are visible across the blue water.

Late-1940s Long Island 8mm frame showing a distant vessel silhouette across the ocean, framed by a foreground pier post. — The offshore vessel remains silhouetted near the horizon as the foreground pier post crosses the frame.

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