New York-1948: A Video Of A Pristine And Scenic Lake With Small Houses In The

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

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A Video Of A Pristine And Scenic Lake With Small Houses... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene pond reflecting small suburban houses and leafy trees. The camera pans slowly across the water, revealing a quiet residential neighborhood with a chain-link fence and a wooden dock. The footage features warm, faded colors typical of 1940s Super 8 film, with visible grain and soft focus. This nostalgic clip offers authentic archival footage of mid-century American life, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 124876250

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1940s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet suburban pond, waterside houses, and residential scenery for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century residential lakefront details, including small houses, exterior stairways, chain-link fencing, a narrow dock, and mature trees.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan across water and houses has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing a neighborhood landscape without visible people or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pond water, reflected houses, leafy trees, chain-link fence, exterior steps, a small dock, shoreline plants, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge darkness that add physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, residential transition, water reflection cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s New York sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for a quiet residential waterside setting, showing modest homes and maintained shoreline spaces in archival home-movie form.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or noted, but copyright, location identification, and residential property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1948 New York 8mm pond footage, 1940s suburban lake home movie, vintage residential waterfront, and mid-century house reflections.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1948 material, then with other pond, suburban housing, or quiet neighborhood footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing pond reflections, small residential houses, exterior steps, trees, and shoreline fencing. — Pond reflections and small houses along a tree-lined residential shore.

1948 New York 8mm view across a pond toward small houses, chain-link fencing, trees, and reflected light on the water. — Residential houses and fencing reflected across the pond.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a pond edge with trees, chain-link fence, walkway, shoreline plants, and a small dock. — Tree-lined pond edge with fencing, walkway, and a small dock.

1948 New York 8mm frame of a quiet pond with shoreline trees, chain-link fence, shrubs, and a small wooden dock. — Quiet pond shoreline with trees, shrubs, fencing, and a small dock.

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