New York-1973: Speed Boat Glides Across Blue Lake On Clear Day

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

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Speed Boat Glides Across Blue Lake On Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a speedboat gliding across a blue lake on a clear day. The footage, likely filmed from another boat, shows the speedboat leaving a white wake as it moves across the water. The shoreline is visible in the distance, lined with trees under a pale blue sky with scattered clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic 1970s summer vacation feel. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about American leisure and transportation.

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: 125582718

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: 1970s New York home-movie boating footage for productions needing a brief recreational waterway insert or summer travel cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s leisure boating, with a small speedboat, open water, distant tree-lined shore, and saturated 8mm color as the main visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint appears filmed from another moving boat, giving the scene an unstaged vacation perspective as the speedboat crosses the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a small speedboat, white wake, low wooded shoreline, pale sky, scattered clouds, and a partial boat edge in one frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue tones, slight handheld drift, and tilted horizons typical of home-movie filming from a boat.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for recreational boating, lake travel, or 1970s summer leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents casual American waterside recreation through a home-movie lens without visible landmarks, crowds, signage, or identifiable people.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 New York 8mm speedboat footage, vintage lake boating home movie, and 1970s summer water recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 New York water scenes, then broader 1970s boating and summer leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing blue lake water, a distant tree-lined shore, and scattered clouds from a moving boat viewpoint. — Blue water and a low wooded shoreline appear beneath scattered clouds.

1973 New York 8mm frame with a small speedboat moving across blue water near a low wooded shoreline. — A small speedboat moves along the distant shore with a white wake behind it.

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a speedboat near the shoreline, with a partial foreground boat edge from the filming position. — The speedboat continues across the water while the filming boat edge appears in the foreground.

1973 New York 8mm frame of a small speedboat gliding by a wooded point on blue lake water. — A speedboat passes a wooded point, leaving a bright wake on the water.

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