New York-1973: Motorboats On A Lake With Islands

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

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Motorboats On A Lake With Islands — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures motorboats cruising across a calm lake with distant islands under a hazy sky. The footage, viewed through a film frame, shows a white motorboat and a yellow watercraft moving across the water, leaving trails behind. The scene has a nostalgic, grainy quality with a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of 1970s home movies. The camera appears to be handheld from a moving boat, offering a dynamic perspective of recreational boating in New York.

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: 125582734

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 (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 recreational boating coverage, especially documentary inserts or memory sequences needing home-movie lake activity.
Period detail: The small motorboats, hazy color, and 8mm frame edges may show early 1970s leisure boating without identifiable landmarks in view.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears handheld from a moving boat, giving the scene an unstaged passenger perspective on other boats crossing open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open lake water, distant low islands or shoreline, a white motorboat, a smaller yellow craft, boat wakes, hazy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure fluctuation, purple-blue color cast, and gate-framed handheld movement typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for lakeside recreation in the 1970s.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for casual motorboat recreation in New York, framed from within a private home-movie vantage rather than a staged production.
Research note: People are flagged as visible in the clip, though no faces are distinguishable in these stills, so likeness review may still be needed apart from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 New York 8mm boating footage, home movie motorboats on lake, vintage island shoreline, and 1970s recreational watercraft.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New York water scenes, then broader 1970s boating or summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing small boats crossing a lake near distant islands under a hazy sky. — Motorboats move across open lake water with islands on the horizon.

A white motorboat and a yellow watercraft travel across a New York lake in this grainy 1973 8mm frame. — A white motorboat passes near a smaller yellow craft on rippled water.

Two small motorboats leave pale wakes across open water, with a low island visible beyond them. — Small boats create white wakes as they cross the lake.

A motorboat travels along a New York lake near a low shoreline, seen through a soft, grainy 8mm frame. — A motorboat crosses the frame with shoreline and trees in the distance.

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