Long Island New York-1948: Simple And Identical Houses That Are Located Close To

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

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Simple And Identical Houses That Are Located Close To — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet coastal scene on Long Island, New York. The footage shows simple, identical white houses with weathered metal roofs nestled near the ocean under a deep blue twilight sky. Power lines stretch across the frame, and a small boat is visible near the shore. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and subtle camera movement evoke a nostalgic, peaceful mid-century American seaside 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: 124862461

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: Supports 1940s editorial needs for coastal Long Island housing, modest seaside settlement views, and quiet mid-century residential cutaways.
Period detail: The small white houses, simple roofs, overhead utility lines, and 8mm color stock may show late-1940s coastal residential vernacular.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view feels like a visitor or resident pausing on nearby shoreline buildings rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white waterside houses, weathered metal roofs, blue water, overhead lines, grass, a small boat, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, cool blue color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld movement as part of its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, quiet transition, seaside memory beat, or cutaway for postwar domestic coastal life.
Historical context: The footage visually situates modest housing close to the water, suggesting everyday coastal settlement without confirming ownership or exact neighborhood.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible buildings may still require copyright, location, and property-context review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1948 Long Island 8mm coastal houses, 1940s New York beach cottages, and vintage home movie seaside housing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with 1948 Long Island material, then with other 1940s coastal housing, beach, and domestic landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a small white waterside house, blue water, utility lines, grass, and a small boat nearby. — A white house stands close to the water with overhead lines and a small boat visible near the shore.

1948 Long Island frame of a simple white coastal house with a weathered roof, dark window openings, and blue water behind it. — A simple white house with a metal roof sits near calm blue water beneath utility lines.

1948 Long Island footage frame showing a low white seaside house, sloped metal roof, blue water, and grassy foreground. — The camera frames a low white house near the water, with grass along the lower edge of the scene.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame with two small white waterside buildings, blue water, utility lines, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Two small white buildings appear near the shoreline, separated by the dark vertical edge of the film frame.

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