Long Island New York-1948: Sandy Coast With Buildings In The Distance Then

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

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Sandy Coast With Buildings In The Distance Then — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet coastal scene on Long Island, New York. The footage opens with a white house near a calm inlet, framed by power lines against a deep blue sky. The camera pans across the shoreline, revealing a sandy cove and distant buildings nestled along the coast. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American seaside atmosphere. A brief overexposed frame interrupts the sequence, typical of old home movie footage. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124862470

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 Long Island coastal atmosphere, seaside settlement context, or quiet home-movie cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century utility poles, overhead wires, simple coastal buildings, and an undeveloped sandy inlet consistent with the 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, pausing on a small waterfront house and then panning toward a cove and distant shoreline buildings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white waterfront house, utility poles, overhead wires, calm blue water, sandy cove, grassy shore, distant low buildings, and film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, blue color shift, handheld framing, gate edges, and brief overexposure that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a coastal establishing insert, transition between Long Island memories, or quiet cutaway for mid-century seaside narration.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of coastal Long Island, with shoreline buildings and utility infrastructure rather than identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible structures and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island coast, vintage home movie shoreline, sandy inlet with houses, and mid-century New York seaside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island clips, then broader 1940s coastal home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a white waterfront house, calm inlet water, overhead wires, and low shoreline in the distance. — A small white waterfront building stands beside a calm inlet under overhead utility wires.

1948 Long Island coastal view with a utility pole, overhead wires, a white house near the water, and a low headland beyond. — A utility pole and wires frame a white shoreline building near calm blue water.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame looking across a sandy cove, grassy foreground, shoreline curve, and soft distant buildings. — The camera looks across a quiet sandy cove toward low buildings on the far shore.

1948 Long Island coastal frame showing calm cove water, a grassy bank, sandy shoreline, and distant buildings softened by 8mm focus. — A grassy bank overlooks a calm cove with distant buildings along the shoreline.

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