New York-1948: Brief Glimpse Of White Beautiful Lake Home On A Warm Summer Day

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

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Brief Glimpse Of White Beautiful Lake Home On A Warm... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1948 captures a serene lakeside scene in New York. The footage opens with a yellow-tinted, grainy view of calm water and a distant shoreline, transitioning through a blank frame before revealing a warm, reddish-brown lake reflecting a row of modest houses. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, color fading, and natural grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This brief glimpse of a quiet summer day offers authentic, unscripted footage ideal for historical or nostalgic 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: 124876245

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 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
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: 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 New York home-movie requests needing a brief lakeside cutaway, summer atmosphere, or noncommercial residential waterfront context.
Period detail: The clip may show modest mid-century lakeside homes and shoreline landscaping, with era support coming chiefly from the 1948 metadata and 8mm source format.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering briefly across water, blank leader-like frames, and a distant residential shoreline without visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, a distant wooded bank, blank or overexposed film frames, waterfront houses, railings, grass, and reflected building shapes.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, warm color fading, exposure shifts, soft focus, and contact-frame borders that contribute useful archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, memory beat, lake-establishing insert, or quiet cutaway between longer family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure or domestic life around a New York lake, but the frames do not identify a specific town, family, property, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but researchers should still review copyright status and any property-context concerns before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm lake footage, vintage home movie waterfront houses, summer lake cutaway, and mid-century residential shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York lake material, then broader 1940s home-movie waterfront or summer travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame with yellow-tinted lake water, a distant shoreline, soft focus, grain, and visible film-frame edges. — A warm, faded view of lake water and a distant wooded bank.

Pale overexposed or blank 8mm frame with dust specks, subtle discoloration, and dark vertical film borders. — A blank or overexposed film frame appears between lake views.

Yellowed 8mm frame with scratches, faint staining, dust, and dark film borders, with no clear subject visible. — A yellowed transitional frame shows scratches and age marks in the film.

1948 New York 8mm view of lakeside houses, railings, lawn, and dark water reflections along a quiet shoreline. — Waterfront houses and railings reflect across the lake surface.

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