New York-1973: White Motorboats on Calm Water

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

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White Motorboats on Calm Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures several white motorboats floating on calm waters in New York. The footage shows a larger cabin cruiser alongside smaller runabouts, gently bobbing on a tranquil basin under an overcast sky. A distant shoreline with trees is visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, subtle color fading with a blueish tint, and natural grain. The camera remains mostly steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s recreational boating.

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: 125589071

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 or editorial sequences needing quiet marina, basin, or leisure-water cutaways.
Period detail: The white cabin cruisers and small runabouts may show early-1970s pleasure boating, supported by the 1973 home-movie metadata and 8mm source format.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor or family-film viewpoint, watching boats drift from shore or another vessel rather than presenting a planned boating scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm open water, white motorboats, a larger cabin cruiser, small runabouts, a low tree-lined shoreline, an overcast sky, and film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-print framing give the shot clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, waterfront transition, leisure-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a New York boating sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary recreational boat presence on a calm basin, offering social context for waterfront leisure without identifying a specific harbor or event.
Research note: People may be present at a distance, so likeness review is prudent; no readable brands or private-property details are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 8mm New York boating footage, vintage home movie motorboats, calm basin water, cabin cruiser, runabouts, and 1970s recreational waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York 1973 waterfront material, then with broader 1970s boating, marina, or summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing white motorboats on calm basin water beneath an overcast sky, with a distant tree-lined shoreline. — Motorboats sit on still water in a quiet basin with shoreline trees beyond.

Distant white motorboats float across calm New York basin water in this soft 1973 8mm home-movie frame. — Distant boats appear across the basin, separated by open water and a low shoreline.

Soft 8mm view of a cabin cruiser and smaller pleasure boats floating on calm basin water in New York, 1973. — A cabin cruiser and nearby runabouts drift gently near the distant shoreline.

1973 New York 8mm frame with white pleasure boats on calm water and a small distant figure near a cabin cruiser. — Pleasure boats rest on the basin, including a larger cruiser with a small distant figure nearby.

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