Long Island New York-1948: Electric Poles And Buildings At Dusk

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

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Electric Poles And Buildings At Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet Long Island, New York waterfront at dusk. The scene features weathered wooden buildings, utility poles, and crisscrossing wires against a deep blue twilight sky. Several boats are moored in the harbor, their masts silhouetted against the fading light. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, conveying a nostalgic, documentary-style view of mid-century coastal life. The final frame transitions to a rocky shoreline with people relaxing near the water, suggesting a peaceful summer evening.

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: 124862568

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 waterfront home-movie footage suited for documentary cutaways about coastal towns, utilities, harbor edges, or quiet dusk atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century utility poles, overhead wires, small waterfront buildings, docks, and moored boats along a Long Island shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual home-movie vantage point, lingering on the harbor structures and nearby buildings rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooden utility poles, overhead wires, white waterfront buildings, dock railings, boat masts, grass, shoreline structures, and a blue dusk sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, blue color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, transition, or memory beat establishing a Long Island harbor setting in the late 1940s.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for everyday coastal infrastructure and small harbor-side buildings without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: People are flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed, while visible buildings and docks should be assessed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1948 Long Island home movie, 1940s New York waterfront, 8mm harbor buildings, utility poles at dusk, and coastal town cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island footage, then broader 1940s waterfront, harbor, and coastal-town material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island waterfront view with utility poles, wires, dock structures, grasses, and low buildings under a blue dusk sky. — Utility poles and harbor-side structures seen through soft 8mm color at dusk.

Long Island harbor-side buildings and utility poles appear beyond foreground grass and dock structures in this 1948 8mm frame. — Harbor buildings, poles, and masts form a quiet waterfront cutaway.

A row of white waterfront buildings sits near docks and utility poles in a soft 1948 Long Island home-movie view. — White harbor-side buildings and dock railings pass through the handheld frame.

Long Island waterfront buildings and dock structures appear with small distant people near the lower frame, recorded on 8mm in 1948. — Distant people and white waterfront buildings appear near the dock area.

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