Long Island New York-1948: Three Boats Docked At Wooden Pier On A Clear Day

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

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Three Boats Docked At Wooden Pier On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures three classic wooden sailboats docked at a rustic pier on Long Island, New York. The footage shows a calm day with gentle water and a distant shoreline under a clear sky. A small American flag flutters on one vessel, and people are visible on the decks, enjoying a leisurely day on the water. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of an old Super 8 home movie, offering authentic mid-century maritime nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124862424

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 editorial sequences needing Long Island recreational boating, marina activity, or mid-century leisure cutaways from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The wooden sailboats, small American flags, simple pier, and soft 8mm color may show postwar coastal recreation details without identifying a specific marina or vessel.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes docked boats and people on deck from a casual shore or pier vantage, preserving an unstaged home-movie view of a day by the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooden sailboats, masts and rigging, a wooden pier, choppy water, American flags, people aboard boats, shoreline grass, and small harbor buildings.
Film character: The clip has blue-shifted color, gate shadows, visible grain, soft focus, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, maritime establishing cutaway, leisure-memory beat, or transition within a Long Island or coastal recreation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents small-craft boating as a social leisure setting, with people gathered near moored vessels rather than formal yacht-race or commercial harbor activity.
Research note: People and possible vessel markings or flags are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property considerations should be reviewed separately from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 Long Island 8mm boating footage, vintage sailboats at pier, mid-century marina home movie, and American flag on wooden boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront scenes, then with 1948 Long Island material, and finally with broader vintage boating, marina, or coastal leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing wooden sailboats at a dock, American flags, water, and people aboard the vessels. — Several classic boats sit alongside a wooden pier, with flags visible at the sterns and people gathered on deck.

1948 Long Island harbor view with moored boats, tall masts, a wooden pier, grassy bank, and small buildings in the distance. — Moored boats line the pier while a grassy shoreline and small waterfront structures appear beyond the harbor.

1948 Long Island 8mm frame of sailboats tied at a pier, with people near the boats and a road or path rising through grass behind them. — A row of boats rests at the dock as the camera looks toward the grassy shore and harbor buildings.

1948 Long Island harbor frame showing docked sailboats, rigging, pier posts, water, grassy shore, and small waterfront buildings. — Docked sailboats fill the foreground, with pier posts and a quiet shoreline stretching behind them.

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