New York-1973: White Motorboat Docked at Pier

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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White Motorboat Docked at Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a white motorboat docked at a wooden pier, its canopy and steering wheel visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, faded colors, and noticeable film grain. The final frames show a damaged film strip with red color bleed and scratches, highlighting the authentic wear of archival 8mm home movie footage. This raw, unpolished clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a summer day on the water, perfect for documentary, editorial, or retro-themed 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: 125582563

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 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1973 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: Useful for 1970s New York boating, marina, home-movie, or archival film-damage inserts in documentary, editorial, museum, or education productions.
Period detail: The white motorboat, canvas canopy, dock setting, soft color, and 8mm handling may show a casual early-1970s waterfront scene in New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, briefly observing a docked boat before the reel runs into exposed or damaged film leader.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motorboat, canvas canopy, steering area, wooden dock edge, background windows, moored boats, sprocket-edge shadows, and red emulsion damage.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with soft focus, faded color, gate shadows, dust, scratches, and red color bleed from damaged film frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short marina cutaway, a memory beat, a transition into damaged-film material, or an insert for vintage leisure footage.
Historical context: The frames visually suggest recreational boating and waterfront access, but they do not identify a specific marina, owner, event, or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location, vessel ownership, and property considerations may still require review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm motorboat dock, New York home movie marina, vintage boat canopy footage, and damaged 8mm film leader.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 New York waterfront footage, and then with broader vintage boating or film-damage material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a white motorboat at a dock, with canopy supports and background boats visible. — A white motorboat sits docked with its canopy raised, seen through soft 8mm home-movie focus.

1973 New York 8mm frame of a docked white motorboat, with canopy frame, cockpit area, and nearby boats in the background. — The camera lingers on the docked motorboat, showing the cockpit area beneath the raised canopy.

Damaged 8mm film frame showing a vertical red color bleed, dust, scratches, and dark gate-edge shadows. — The image shifts from the boat scene to damaged film, with a red vertical mark across a pale frame.

8mm damage frame with red emulsion streaks, dust, scratches, and dark frame-edge shadows after the boat footage. — Red emulsion damage spreads across the frame as the reel reaches visibly worn or exposed material.

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