New York-1973: White House on Island Across Water

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

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White House on Island Across Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a white house on an island across calm water. The footage, likely filmed from a boat, shows the large building with a dark roof and striped awnings, surrounded by trees under a clear sky. The purple-tinted color and grainy texture are characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. The camera slowly pans across the landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful waterfront property in New York.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125589157

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: 1970s New York home-movie waterfront footage suited to documentary inserts, location cutaways, or quiet establishing views of coastal residential architecture.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s leisure travel cues through handheld 8mm framing, striped awnings, broad waterfront lawn, and a large white house seen from the water.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to observe the property from a passing boat, creating an unstaged visitor perspective rather than a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a white waterfront house, dark rooflines, striped awnings, trees, shoreline rocks, open sky, and distant boats or shoreline forms.
Film character: The footage has a purple-blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld drift consistent with scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a waterfront establishing insert, a travel-memory transition, or a quiet cutaway between New York coastal or island sequences.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for 1970s home-movie sightseeing around a wooded New York shoreline without identifying the house or island by name.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 New York 8mm waterfront house, vintage home movie island view, white house across water, and 1970s coastal shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New York waterfront views, then broader vintage home-movie clips of houses seen from boats.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York 8mm frame showing a large white house with striped awnings across calm water, bordered by trees and shoreline rocks. — A large white waterfront house appears across the water, with striped awnings and trees behind it.

Distant 1973 New York waterfront view of a white house along a wooded shoreline, filmed across a broad stretch of calm water. — The house recedes into a wider shoreline view as the camera looks across open water.

Wide 8mm frame from 1973 New York showing the white waterfront house farther away, with trees and calm water dominating the scene. — A wider view places the house low on the shoreline, surrounded by trees and water.

Final 1973 New York frame showing the waterfront house at a distance, with calm water in front and a dark foreground shape near the lower edge. — The shoreline and house remain distant while a dark foreground shape enters the lower frame.

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