New York-1973: Motorboat Speeding Across Water With American Flag

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

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Motorboat Speeding Across Water With American Flag — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1973 captures a white motorboat speeding across calm waters near a distant shoreline. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, shows the boat cutting through the water, leaving a white wake behind. The scene is framed by the dark borders of the film, with visible grain and a slightly faded color palette typical of Super 8 film. The boat, featuring a small canopy and an American flag, moves from left to right, with a rocky or vegetated coast visible in the background under a hazy sky. The overall mood is nostalgic and serene, evoking a classic summer day on the water.

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: 125582750

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: 1970s New York home-movie footage suited for documentary or museum edits needing a small motorboat crossing open water.
Period detail: The outboard motorboat, small canopy, faded color, and 8mm framing may show a recreational boating scene from the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a passenger filming from another moving boat as the motorboat passes close enough to catch wake, flag, and shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motorboat, American flag, outboard motor, small canopy, open water, distant low shoreline, wake, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate borders, and handheld motion from a moving camera position.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief waterfront insert, summer travel cutaway, recreational boating transition, or memory beat within a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual leisure boating on New York waters without identifying a specific harbor, town, event, or named landmark from the visible frames.
Research note: People appear aboard the boat, so likeness review may be needed separately from film copyright, with no visible brands or private property confirmed in these frames.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1970s New York 8mm motorboat footage, vintage home movie recreational boating, and American flag boat on water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 New York waterfront footage, then with broader vintage boating or summer leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1973 New York 8mm frame shows a white motorboat crossing calm water with a faint shoreline behind it. — A small motorboat travels across open water, leaving a light wake near a distant shore.

The motorboat angles across the frame on New York waters, with a low shoreline and dark 8mm gate borders visible. — The boat continues across the water as the camera tracks it from a moving vantage point.

A closer 1973 New York frame shows the motorboat passing with a canopy, outboard motor, wake, and small American flag at the stern. — The motorboat passes closer to camera, showing its canopy, outboard motor, and stern flag.

The motorboat passes close to the camera on New York water, with spray, wake, canopy, flag, and shoreline softened by motion. — The boat crosses close to the lens, filling the frame with hull, spray, and wake.

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