Long Island New York-1948: American Flag Flying Over A Battleship On The Open

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

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American Flag Flying Over A Battleship On The Open — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic maritime scene from Long Island, New York. The footage opens with a close-up of a ship's mast cutting through turbulent, deep blue ocean waves under a stormy sky. The view shifts to a distant battleship on the horizon, its silhouette visible against a pale sky, followed by a distant lighthouse on a rocky island. The grainy, color-bleached quality and dark borders are characteristic of 8mm home movie footage from the era, evoking a sense of historical nostalgia and wartime maritime activity.

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: 124862789

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s archival requests needing Long Island maritime home-movie material, distant naval silhouettes, ocean travel, or coastal cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color frame, soft focus, dark gate borders, and distant ship profile support a late-1940s home-movie reading, while the exact vessel and shoreline features remain unidentified.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint from a moving boat, with the camera briefly catching a flag or mast before settling on a far-off ship across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean, choppy wake, a narrow flag or mast, dark film borders, pale sky, a distant warship-like silhouette, horizon line, and soft 8mm grain.
Film character: The footage has saturated blue color, uneven exposure, gate shadows, soft focus, dust marks, and handheld framing consistent with original 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief maritime insert, voyage transition, coastal memory beat, or distant naval cutaway within a 1940s Long Island sequence.
Historical context: The frames show civilian home-movie observation of a vessel offshore, offering coastal and maritime atmosphere without proving a specific naval event or named ship.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but vessel identity, military implications, location specificity, and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Long Island 8mm ocean footage, vintage home movie battleship at sea, American flag on boat, and distant naval ship horizon.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1948 Long Island coastal footage, then broader 1940s ocean, ship, lighthouse, and naval-theme home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 Long Island 8mm frame showing choppy blue water and a narrow flag or mast from a moving boat. — A flag or mast passes in front of rough blue water, framed by dark 8mm gate edges.

1948 Long Island 8mm view of a distant warship-like vessel on the horizon beyond blue water. — A far-off ship sits low on the horizon across open water under a pale sky.

The camera holds a distant vessel or low shoreline form against a hazy horizon.

1948 Long Island 8mm view of a distant ship-like silhouette framed by open water and pale sky. — A ship-like form appears near the horizon at the right edge of the 8mm frame.

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