Long Island New York-1948: Passenger Steamships with Smoking Stacks Docked in Harbor

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

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Passenger Steamships with Smoking Stacks Docked in Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures two large passenger steamships docked in a harbor on Long Island, New York. The vessels, with their prominent smokestacks emitting plumes of smoke, are moored near a shoreline with small buildings and boats. The footage, viewed through the characteristic frame of an 8mm projector, shows a blue-tinted color palette and visible film grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century maritime scene. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene glimpse of mid-20th century transportation and coastal life.

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: 124862629

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or editorial requests needing Long Island harbor views, passenger steamships, waterfront transport, or mid-century coastal atmosphere.
Period detail: The large steamship funnels, simple waterfront buildings, small boats, and blue-tinted 8mm color may show postwar passenger or excursion traffic in a Long Island harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing distant vessels from across the water without staging, narration, or visible interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two large steamships, active smokestacks, harbor water, a small buoy, low shoreline buildings, small boats, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, blue color cast, gate edges, dust specks, and light weave typical of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, harbor establishing shot, transition, or quiet memory beat within a mid-century travel or transport sequence.
Historical context: The view documents waterfront movement and steam-era passenger vessels from a distant shoreline perspective, without identifiable people or visible signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, location specifics, copyright status, and property permissions should be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 Long Island 8mm harbor footage, distant passenger steamships, smokestacks on blue water, and mid-century New York maritime home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island waterfront footage, then broader 1940s steamship, harbor, or coastal travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island harbor view with two distant passenger steamships, smoking funnels, blue water, and visible 8mm gate edges. — Two distant steamships sit along the harbor shoreline with smokestacks active.

A Long Island harbor frame shows large steamships moored across blue water, with smoke visible above a funnel. — Steamships remain moored in the distance as smoke drifts above the shoreline.

1948 Long Island waterfront view with a steamship partly at left, small boats, low buildings, and blue harbor water. — The camera shifts to include small boats and low harbor buildings beside the steamship.

Distant Long Island harbor scene with low waterfront buildings, small boats, and the edge of a dark foreground object. — Small harbor craft and waterfront buildings appear as the steamship moves out of frame.

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