Long Island New York-1948: Wide Waterfront with Grassy Shoreline

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

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Wide Waterfront with Grassy Shoreline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront scene from Long Island, New York. The footage shows a wide body of water with a distant shoreline featuring grassy slopes, scattered poles, and a prominent building. The view is framed by the dark edges of a projector, with visible film grain and slight blurriness characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The scene transitions from a hazy, overcast day to a darker, twilight view of the beach and ocean, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic 1940s Americana for documentaries, editorial content, and historical storytelling.

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: 124862509

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 Long Island home-movie waterfront footage suited for documentary inserts, regional history edits, and quiet establishing cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm view may show a mid-century shoreline with low industrial or utility structures, poles, open grass, and a broad inlet or bay.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view across water, holding on distant shoreline features rather than presenting a planned scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide water surface, hazy shoreline, grassy banks, low hills, scattered poles, distant structures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, muted blue-gray exposure, gate edges, grain, and slight instability give the scan a clear physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a calm waterfront insert, regional establishing shot, transition, or memory beat between Long Island family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects open shoreline space and distant built features in a 1948 Long Island setting without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location and any distant structures should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1948 Long Island waterfront home movie, 8mm bay shoreline, 1940s New York coastal landscape, and vintage grassy shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1948 Long Island scenes, then broader 1940s coastal, bay, grassland, or quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame looking across a broad body of water toward a hazy grassy shoreline with poles and a distant structure. — Distant shoreline and water seen through soft 8mm frame edges.

Soft 1948 Long Island waterfront view with open water in the foreground and a distant shoreline with a building-like form and poles. — Open water and distant shoreline structures under a hazy sky.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame showing a wide water surface and low grassy shoreline, with faint distant structures softened by haze. — Low grassy shoreline across a quiet body of water.

Soft 8mm view from 1948 Long Island showing open water, a curving grassy shoreline, scattered poles, and low distant structures. — Curving grassy edge and distant shoreline details beside open water.

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