New York-1973: A White Motorboat Anchored in Calm Water

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

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A White Motorboat Anchored in Calm Water — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1973 captures a white motorboat anchored in calm, purple-tinged water, likely a bay or inlet near New York. The boat, with its classic 1970s design and a small canopy, gently rocks on the still surface, its reflection shimmering below. A small, grassy island or shoreline is visible in the background under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color cast, and slight instability of Super 8 film, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment of leisure and solitude.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125589138

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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-area archival requests needing a quiet home-movie cutaway of recreational boating on calm water.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1970s white cabin motorboat with a small canopy, filmed from shore or another boat on 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is in the patient home-movie observation of a moored boat rocking gently with no people or performance visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motorboat, calm purple-tinged water, boat reflections, a low shoreline or island, pale sky and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, purple color shift, slight exposure variation and contact-sheet framing as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm insert, waterfront transition, leisure cutaway or reflective memory beat in a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests ordinary waterfront recreation rather than a marked event, with the boat isolated against a low shoreline.
Research note: No people, logos or readable registration marks are visible, but copyright and any location or vessel-property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1973 New York 8mm boat, vintage home movie motorboat, calm bay footage or 1970s waterfront cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New York waterfront material, then broader 1970s boating or leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a white motorboat on still water with a low shoreline in the background. — A white cabin motorboat sits on calm water near a low shoreline.

1973 New York home-movie frame with a white cabin motorboat, canopy and reflection on calm water. — The motorboat appears closer in frame, with its reflection visible below.

Soft 8mm frame of a white motorboat in calm New York-area water, with a low shoreline behind it. — A side view of the boat shows the low shoreline running behind the hull.

Wide 1973 New York 8mm view of a white motorboat at anchor on still water near a low island or shoreline. — The final frame widens slightly, placing the anchored boat against open water and a low shore.

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