New York-1973: Motorboat on Calm Lake Waters

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

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Motorboat on Calm Lake Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a white motorboat gliding across calm lake waters under an overcast sky. The footage, likely filmed from another boat, shows the vessel moving slowly through the water with a distant shoreline visible in the background. The image has a soft, grainy quality with a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of 1970s film stock. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic summer day, with the boat's reflection shimmering on the water's surface. This archival footage offers a peaceful glimpse into mid-1970s leisure activities on a New York lake.

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: 125589141

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s New York leisure, lake travel, and home-movie cutaways needing quiet boat activity on open water.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, small motorboats, and subdued waterfront view may show early 1970s recreational lake boating.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from another boat, observing vessels passing at an unhurried distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, small passenger boats, a white cabin motorboat, distant tree-lined shore, muted sky, and film frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure shifts, handheld framing, and a purple-blue color cast typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, travel insert, waterside transition, or memory beat between broader 1970s scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational boating and waterside viewing in a quiet New York lake setting without identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location, vessel ownership, and contextual use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1973 8mm New York lake boating, vintage home movie boat footage, or 1970s recreational water travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1973 New York lake footage, then broader 1970s boating and leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a white cabin motorboat on calm lake water under a muted sky. — A white cabin motorboat moves across still lake water with a low shoreline in the distance.

Small boat seen at a distance on a New York lake, with dark shoreline trees and soft 8mm color. — A small passenger boat crosses the water near a dark tree-lined shoreline.

Distant boats pass across calm New York lake water in a soft, grainy 1973 home-movie frame. — Two boats appear at opposite sides of the frame on a broad stretch of lake water.

A distant boat moves along calm New York lake water, framed by wooded shoreline and aged 8mm texture. — A distant boat travels across the lake beneath a pale sky and wooded shoreline.

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