New York-1959: Women Touring Water Gate Wharf

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Women Touring Water Gate Wharf — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a group of middle-aged women touring a waterfront wharf in New York. The footage opens with a distant view of a suspension bridge over turquoise water, then transitions to women in summer attire—tank tops and patterned skirts—walking past a wooden gate marked 'WATER GATE'. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color tones, and natural movement, evoking a nostalgic 1950s vacation atmosphere. The handheld camera follows the women as they explore the historic site, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125574633

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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 1950s home-movie requests needing visitor-shot waterfront sightseeing, women travelers, and brief landmark or wharf cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The women's sleeveless tops, patterned skirts, wooden visitor railing, and faded 8mm color may show late-1950s leisure travel at a waterfront site.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged vacation behavior, with women pausing near a sign, walking through a gate, and being followed by a handheld camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant suspension bridge over water, wooden wharf fencing, a posted sign, two women in summer clothing, a gate, and bright waterfront light.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, faded cyan-green color, uneven exposure, contact-frame borders, and slight handheld drift typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, waterfront transition, location-establishing cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for mid-century recreational sightseeing by adult women at a public waterfront or wharf area, without confirming the exact landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and a posted sign may require identification review; copyright, likeness, trademark, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm women sightseeing at wharf, vintage home movie suspension bridge, waterfront gate tour, and midcentury vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with verified same-location or 1959 waterfront material, then with broader midcentury women-travel and wharf-tour footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame showing a distant suspension bridge across blue-green water, with soft exposure and dark film borders. — A suspension bridge is seen across the water in a faded 8mm travel shot.

1959 8mm frame of two adult women in summer clothing near a wooden gate and posted sign at a waterfront visitor area. — Two women pause near a wooden gate and sign during a waterfront visit.

1959 8mm frame showing two adult women moving past a wooden fence and posted sign, filmed in bright washed-out light. — The camera follows two women walking past the sign and wooden fence.

1959 8mm frame of women walking through a wooden gate beside a waterfront sign, with faded color and visible film borders. — Women move through the gate as the posted sign and railing remain in view.

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