New York-1973: Looking At A Big House From The Other Side Of The River

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

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Looking At A Big House From The Other Side Of The River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a large white house on the far side of a river, viewed from across the water. The footage begins with a distant, hazy view of the building nestled among trees, gradually zooming in to reveal its architectural details, including multiple windows, a prominent chimney, and a covered porch. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged film, with visible grain and slight camera shake. The house stands on a rocky shoreline, suggesting a lakeside or riverside property in New York, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and mid-century Americana.

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: 125589152

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 archival requests needing a quiet riverside estate or large house exterior as documentary context, transition material, or atmospheric cutaway.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s home-movie travel or sightseeing, with the era mainly supported by the 1973 metadata and the 8mm color film appearance.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from across the water and zooms toward the house, giving the clip an unstaged visitor-shot perspective rather than a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad river, a large white waterfront house, trees behind the roofline, a rocky shoreline, porch windows, chimneys, and awning-like details.
Film character: The scan has soft 8mm grain, a purple-blue color cast, mild haze, handheld drift, and zoom softness that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective memory beat, river-view transition, or cutaway for a story involving New York waterfront homes.
Historical context: The scene suggests leisure or residential waterfront viewing in New York, but the frames do not identify the building, town, owner, or specific waterway.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the identifiable exterior should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and location documentation needs.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 8mm New York waterfront house, vintage home movie river view, large white house across water, and 1970s riverside exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1973 waterfront material, then with broader themes of riverside homes and quiet travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant 1973 New York 8mm view of a large white house across the water, softened by haze and film grain. — A far shoreline view frames the house beyond the river.

Large white house on a New York shoreline appears across the river, with trees, rooflines, and a soft purple-blue film cast. — The zoom brings the waterfront house closer within the frame.

Closer 8mm frame of the white riverside house, showing porch windows, roof details, trees, and rocky shoreline. — Architectural details emerge as the camera closes in from across the water.

Close 1973 New York home-movie view of the large white house beside the water, with chimneys, porch glazing, shrubs, and shoreline rocks. — The house fills the frame at the end of the short zoom.

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