Long Island New York-1948: Boat Sailing Down A Blue Lake With A Waving American Flag

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Boat Sailing Down A Blue Lake With A Waving American Flag — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a small boat sailing across a deep blue lake in Long Island, New York. An American flag waves prominently from the vessel against a twilight sky, its red, white, and blue hues rendered in the film's characteristic color cast. The footage shows gentle motion on the water, with visible film grain and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day. The scene is serene and patriotic, with the flag fluttering in the breeze as the boat moves through the calm waters.

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: 124862745

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 Long Island home-movie requests needing a patriotic boating cutaway, waterfront insert, or summer recreation atmosphere.
Period detail: The small-boat viewpoint, 8mm color, and stern-mounted American flag may show a mid-century leisure outing rather than a staged public event.
Home-movie behavior: The camera stays close to the flag and water from aboard or beside the boat, giving the clip an unstaged family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a fluttering American flag, flagpole, boat edge, open water, horizon line, blue sky, film gate borders, and color-shifted grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue color, visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, patriotic memory beat, or waterfront cutaway within a 1940s recreation sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects private leisure boating and national-symbol imagery in postwar-era home movies without identifying a specific public ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any vessel ownership context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm Long Island boating footage, American flag on boat, blue water home movie, and 1940s patriotic recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel boating material, then Long Island 1948 waterfront scenes, then broader 1940s flags, lakes, and summer recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1948 Long Island home-movie frame shows an American flag rising from a boat against blue water and sky. — American flag near the boat edge with open water in the background.

The flag remains centered near the boat edge as blue water stretches toward the horizon in the 1948 Long Island footage. — Flag and pole seen from close range with rippled water behind.

A close 8mm frame shows the flag wrapped partly around the pole above the water during the Long Island boat outing. — Flag partly wrapped around its pole above the waterline.

The American flag flutters across the pole as the 1948 Long Island home movie looks out over blue water. — Flag caught in motion with water and horizon behind it.

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