Long Island New York-1948: View Of Boat With Lowered Sail And Blue Ocean Water

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

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View Of Boat With Lowered Sail And Blue Ocean Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene maritime scene from Long Island, New York. A sailboat with its sail lowered rests on calm blue ocean waters under a clear sky, with distant landforms visible on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a distinct blue tint characteristic of 1940s film stock. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful view of the watercraft and surrounding seascape, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and mid-century coastal recreation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124862729

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 home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for coastal recreation, sailboats, and quiet maritime atmosphere.
Period detail: The small sailboat, simple marina setting, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-century leisure boating without enough detail to identify a specific harbor or vessel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged shoreline glance at a moored sailboat and open water, with the camera lingering like a family travel or vacation record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sailboat with lowered sail, mast rigging, blue water, low horizon landforms, open sky, film borders, and small distant figures on the boat.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, blue color bias, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime cutaway, coastal transition, vacation-memory beat, or quiet insert between broader Long Island or boating sequences.
Historical context: The view reflects recreational waterfront activity in a mid-century home-movie context, while the frames do not support claims about a named club, harbor, or event.
Research note: Human figures appear small and indistinct, so likeness risk seems limited but should be reviewed separately from copyright and any location or vessel permissions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1948 Long Island 8mm sailboat footage, vintage home movie ocean water, lowered sail boat, and mid-century coastal recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island waterfront scenes, then broader vintage boating and ocean-horizon footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing a sailboat at rest on calm blue water with mast rigging and distant shoreline. — Sailboat rests near the Long Island shoreline with blue water and sky behind it.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame isolating the sailboat mast and rigging against blue sky and soft clouds. — Mast and rigging fill the frame as the camera shifts upward from the boat.

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing open blue water, a low horizon, and distant landforms under clear sky. — Open water and distant shoreline create a quiet coastal horizon view.

1948 Long Island home-movie frame of blue ocean water, low islands or shoreline, and clear sky through 8mm film edges. — Distant land sits low on the horizon beyond the blue water.

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