Long Island New York-1948: Classic Motor Yacht Sails Off Shore

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

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Classic Motor Yacht Sails Off Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a classic white and brown motor yacht gliding across calm blue waters off Long Island, New York. The boat, with its wooden cabin and tall mast, moves steadily through the water, framed by a distant shoreline with scattered houses under a clear sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of an old Super 8 home movie. In the final frame, a larger steamship appears in the distance, adding historical context to the maritime scene. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century coastal life and transportation.

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: 124862622

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s maritime, Long Island coastal, leisure boating, transportation, or harbor cutaway needs in documentary and editorial productions.
Period detail: The visible wooden-cabin motor yacht, distant low shoreline, and larger passenger vessel may show mid-century recreational and coastal traffic patterns.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a casual shore or boat-based home-movie view, holding on passing vessels rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a white-and-brown motor yacht, a mast, distant shoreline, scattered houses, a buoy, and a larger passenger ship.
Film character: The 8mm image carries rounded frame edges, blue color shift, soft focus, light gate weave, dust specks, and home-movie grain as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, maritime transition, coastal establishing beat, or memory cutaway for Long Island or mid-century boating.
Historical context: The footage shows leisure or small-vessel movement near a low coastal shore, with a larger vessel adding visual context for waterside transport.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, shoreline property, copyright status, and location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches this clip may match include 1948 Long Island home movie boat, 1940s motor yacht offshore, vintage 8mm coastal water, and passenger ship cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Long Island or 1948 coastal material, then broader 1940s boating and harbor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie frame of a classic motor yacht offshore, with calm water and a distant low shoreline. — A small motor yacht passes offshore with Long Island shoreline in the distance.

Classic white-and-brown motor yacht crossing calm water off Long Island, with low land and small buildings in the background. — The motor yacht continues across calm water against a low coastal horizon.

Home-movie view of the motor yacht moving through Long Island coastal water, framed by soft focus and rounded 8mm edges. — The yacht nears the edge of the frame as the camera holds on the waterway.

A larger passenger ship or ferry appears offshore near Long Island, with a smaller vessel alongside and a buoy in the water. — A larger passenger vessel enters the scene, broadening the harbor and coastal traffic view.

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