Long Island New York-1948: View Of The Berth Of Small Boats With Many Fishing Vessels

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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 The Berth Of Small Boats With Many Fishing Vessels — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet waterfront scene in Long Island, New York. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows a distant view of a small harbor with modest houses along the shore. Several small boats, including fishing vessels, are moored at a wooden berth. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime life with a soft, dreamlike quality characteristic of Super 8 home movies.

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: 124862357

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 archival requests needing Long Island waterfront, small harbor, or working-boat atmosphere as documentary insert material.
Period detail: The modest moored boats, wooden berth, shoreline houses, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century small-harbor conditions without identifying a specific marina.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on the berth and boats as a quiet observation rather than a composed travel postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, small fishing vessels, wooden pilings, dock structures, shoreline houses, rigging, and a distant harbor edge.
Film character: Blue-tinted 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and static framing give the footage a scanned physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for Long Island maritime life, coastal travel, or postwar harbor settings.
Historical context: The scene visually situates everyday small-boat activity along a residential waterfront, with no visible people or identifiable commercial signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, vessel, and property questions should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island harbor footage, vintage small fishing boats, mid-century waterfront home movie, and moored boats at a berth.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Long Island 1948 waterfront material, then broader vintage harbor and fishing-boat scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a distant harbor edge across calm water with soft blue 8mm color. — A distant shoreline and harbor edge sit across calm water.

Small harbor view in Long Island, 1948, with moored boats, dock pilings, rigging, and houses behind the berth. — Moored small boats and wooden dock structures fill the harbor view.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame of small boats tied near dock pilings with a modest shoreline building in the background. — The camera holds on small vessels tied at the wooden berth.

Long Island harbor frame from 1948 showing a small vessel cabin, dock posts, rigging, and houses along the waterfront. — A small vessel and dock posts sit in front of waterfront houses.

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