New York-1973: Water Tower Visible from Boat

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

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Water Tower Visible from Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a hazy, overcast day from a boat on the water. The camera slowly pans across a distant shoreline, revealing a water tower and scattered buildings on land. The footage has a distinct purple-blue color cast and heavy film grain, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a quiet, contemplative mood, with the water stretching toward the horizon under a cloudy sky.

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: 125589093

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: Useful for 1970s New York waterfront inserts, shoreline cutaways, and documentary sequences needing quiet boat-shot home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1973 waterfront view with a distant water tower, low shoreline buildings, and muted overcast light seen from across open water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor or family-film perspective, with the camera observing the shoreline from a moving or drifting boat rather than composing a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad water, a hazy horizon, a distant tree-lined shore, a water tower, low buildings, cloudy sky, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, heavy grain, purple-blue color shift, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, reflective transition, waterfront memory beat, or visual bridge between New York travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a quiet shoreline view from the water, suggesting everyday recreational observation rather than a staged record of a named landmark or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s New York 8mm waterfront footage, home movie from boat, distant water tower shoreline, cloudy water view, and vintage travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New York waterfront material, then broader home-movie water or shoreline views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a hazy shoreline across open water, with a distant water tower and low buildings under cloudy sky. — Distant water tower and shoreline seen from across the water.

Soft 8mm view across a broad water surface toward a distant shoreline water tower in New York, tinted purple-blue by the film scan. — Water tower near the shoreline in a hazy waterfront view.

1973 New York home-movie frame with open water in the foreground and a distant water tower beside a low, tree-lined shore. — Tree-lined shoreline and water tower viewed from the water.

Wide 1973 New York waterfront frame showing open water, a low distant shoreline, and a small water tower under a cloudy sky. — Wide view of the shoreline with the water tower receding in the distance.

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