New York-1973: A Young Man On The Lake With Boats Behind

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

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A Young Man On The Lake With Boats Behind — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a young man on a lake in New York, viewed from a moving boat. The footage shows a white sailboat gliding across the water, with a bridge and tree-lined shore in the background. The perspective shifts as the camera moves, creating motion blur in later frames. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched atmosphere typical of 1970s family vacation footage.

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: 125582680

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 1970s New York home-movie requests needing recreational boating, lake travel, or family vacation atmosphere as documentary or editorial cutaway material.
Period detail: The 8mm look, casual boat viewpoint, small sailboat, and 1973 metadata may show a leisure outing on a New York lake in the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger perspective from a moving boat, with a young man briefly crossing the foreground as the camera tracks the water and sailboat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young man in close foreground, lake water, a white sailboat, wake, tree-lined shoreline, vertical boat supports, and a distant low bridge or shoreline structure.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, faded color, handheld framing, and motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, boating insert, lakeside travel cutaway, or transition between summer recreation scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual private leisure on the water, with small recreational boats and a tree-lined shore rather than a staged public event.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, while copyright, privacy, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 8mm New York lake footage, vintage boating home movie, sailboat on water, and 1970s family vacation recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1973 New York lake or boating clips, and then broader 1970s vacation and recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame with a young man passing close to the camera as lake water and a tree-lined shore appear behind him. — A young man briefly crosses the foreground during a boat ride on the lake.

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a white sailboat across lake water, viewed between dark supports from a moving boat. — A white sailboat passes across the water beyond the moving boat's wake.

1973 New York 8mm frame with a motion-blurred white sailboat, lake surface, tree-lined shore, and boat wake. — Motion blur softens the sailboat and shoreline as the camera moves over the lake.

1973 New York 8mm frame of a sailboat near a tree-lined shore, with lake water and motion blur from a moving boat viewpoint. — The sailboat slides past the wooded shore as the moving camera blurs the frame.

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