New York-1973: A Man On A Boat Gazing At The Lake

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

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A Man On A Boat Gazing At The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a man in glasses aboard a boat, gazing out over calm waters under a pale blue sky. The footage shows a serene lake or coastal scene with distant land and small boats visible. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, observational view of a peaceful boating excursion.

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 and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125582697

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet boating cutaway, waterfront travel insert, or family recreation atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm color, eyeglasses, boat railing, and soft coastal view may show casual early-1970s leisure on New York waters.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger perspective as a man sits near the boat edge and looks out across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in glasses, boat window or rail edges, open water, distant shoreline, small boats, pale sky, and film gate borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight color fade, soft focus, and steady handheld framing that give it a personal archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a reflective insert, travel transition, waterside cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s family-recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary leisure travel from a private home-movie viewpoint rather than a staged tourism or news subject.
Research note: A recognizable adult face appears, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, with no visible logos or private property in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 New York 8mm boating footage, 1970s home movie on water, man on boat, shoreline cutaway, and family recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel boat footage, then with 1973 New York waterfront material, then with broader 1970s boating and leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a man in glasses aboard a boat, with blue water, distant shoreline, and pale sky beyond. — A man in glasses sits near the boat edge as the water and shoreline pass behind him.

1973 New York 8mm frame looking across open water from a boat, with distant land and a partial passenger silhouette at the right edge. — The camera looks over the water toward a low distant shoreline, with a passenger partly visible at right.

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a low shoreline across the water, divided by dark boat-window or railing edges. — A low shoreline appears across the water through dark vertical framing from the boat.

1973 New York 8mm frame of water and a distant shoreline, with dark boat framing dividing the home-movie view. — Water fills the foreground as the distant shore runs across the frame under a pale sky.

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