Long Island New York-1948: Cruise Ship with Passengers Heading into Bay

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

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Cruise Ship with Passengers Heading into Bay — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a cruise ship with passengers heading into a bay on Long Island, New York. The footage shows a group of people in period summer attire—men in shorts and light shirts, women in dresses—standing on the deck against a deep blue sky. The boat moves through calm waters, with a distant shoreline and buildings visible. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film border are characteristic of 8mm home movies from the late 1940s, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 124862635

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: Useful for archive requests needing late-1940s Long Island boating, leisure travel, or passenger-deck cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible summer clothing, open deck railings, lifebuoys, and small cruise vessel may show postwar-era recreational boating details consistent with the 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in its distant passenger activity, with people standing, sitting, and moving casually on deck as the boat passes the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a gray boat hull, deck railings, passengers in light summer clothes, a mast or deck structure, lifebuoys, blue sky, and calm water.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue sky, exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century Long Island leisure footage.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary passenger-deck activity on a small vessel in a coastal setting, without visible signage or landmarks that would narrow identification further.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, audible music, or clear private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1948 Long Island 8mm cruise boat, vintage home movie passengers on deck, postwar New York bay travel, and mid-century leisure boating.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Long Island 1948 coastal footage, then with broader vintage boating, ferry, cruise, and summer travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small passenger boat passes the camera with several people standing along the deck.

Passengers in summer clothing appear on the deck of a small Long Island boat, with railings and blue sky visible in the 8mm frame. — Passengers gather on the open deck as the boat moves across calm water.

Mid-century home-movie frame of a small passenger boat deck with people, railings, lifebuoys, and a raised structure under a blue sky. — Several passengers stand or sit near the railings and deck equipment.

1948 Long Island boating frame showing passengers gathered on deck near railings, lifebuoys, and a mast-like structure in bright blue daylight. — Passengers in light clothing gather along the deck of the small vessel.

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