Long Island New York-1948: Small Island With White Buildings And Red Roofs

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

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Small Island With White Buildings And Red Roofs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a small island off Long Island, New York, featuring white buildings with red roofs under a clear blue sky. The view, framed by a dark border suggesting a window or boat view, shows a lighthouse-style structure and a low building on a sandy spit, with calm blue water in the foreground. The final frame shifts to the back of a small boat with a flag, showing the ocean at dusk. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking mid-century Americana and coastal nostalgia.

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: 124862739

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 coastal Long Island inserts, maritime travel sequences, and documentary cutaways needing real 8mm home-movie views from the water.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century visitor footage of white shoreline buildings with red roofs, a lighthouse-like structure, and open water under a clear sky.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming from a moving boat, lingering on the shoreline before turning toward the boat stern and flag.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a low island shoreline, white buildings with red roofs, a lighthouse-style tower, dark frame edges, a boat stern, and a flag.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blues, soft focus, gate edges, dust specks, and slight exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a coastal establishing insert, a travel-memory transition, or a brief cutaway between Long Island maritime scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects a leisure or sightseeing perspective on a small Long Island coastal landmark area without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identity, property rights, and underlying copyright should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1948 Long Island 8mm island shoreline, white buildings red roofs, coastal landmark from boat, or vintage home-movie water view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1948 Long Island or New York coastal footage, then broader 1940s boating and shoreline travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island home-movie view of white buildings with red roofs on a small shoreline across blue water. — White shoreline buildings with red roofs seen from across the water.

Long Island shoreline filmed from the water, with white buildings, red roofs, and a lighthouse-like tower visible. — A small coastal island or spit with landmark-style buildings across the water.

8mm frame of a Long Island coastal shoreline with white red-roofed buildings and a tower-like structure across the water. — Red-roofed white buildings line the distant shore beyond the water.

View from the stern of a small boat, with a flag silhouetted against open water in low blue light. — The camera turns toward the boat stern and flag over open water.

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