New York-1973: Several Boats Docked In A Harbor During A Sunny Day

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

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Several Boats Docked In A Harbor During A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures several boats docked at a marina in New York. The footage shows a variety of vessels, including motor yachts and sailboats, moored along wooden piers under a bright, sunny sky. The scene is bathed in the warm, slightly faded color palette characteristic of 1970s home movies, with visible film grain and a soft focus. Trees line the shoreline in the background, and the water reflects the boats and sky. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1970s waterfront recreation and leisure.

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: 125589241

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 (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 productions seeking 1970s New York waterfront recreation, marina cutaways, or archival home-movie atmosphere around small craft and leisure boating.
Period detail: The motor yachts, sailboat masts, wooden pilings, soft color, and 8mm frame texture support an early-1970s recreational marina setting without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a family visitor filming docked boats from across the water rather than staged travel or commercial photography.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include docked motor yachts, sailboat masts, wooden piers, mooring pilings, calm reflective water, trees along the shore, and low waterfront structures.
Film character: The footage shows grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that preserve the physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, waterfront transition, leisure cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s New York sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and marina life as seen through a private home-movie camera, with no visible crowds, signage, or event context.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible in these frames, but copyright, vessel identification, and location/property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 New York marina footage, 8mm docked boats, 1970s harbor home movie, motor yachts at pier, and sailboats in a marina.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1973 New York waterfront material, then broader 1970s boating, harbor, marina, or leisure recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New York marina view with several docked cabin boats, wooden pilings, shoreline trees, and reflective water on 8mm film. — Several small motor boats sit moored beside wooden pilings in a quiet marina.

Docked motor yachts and small craft line a New York marina, with pilings, trees, and water reflections visible in the 1973 home-movie frame. — Motor yachts and smaller boats are tied up along the marina under a bright sky.

A large white motor yacht is moored among smaller boats at a New York marina, with still water and wooden dock posts visible. — A larger white motor yacht sits at the dock beside smaller marina boats.

A white motor yacht is docked near sailboat masts and marina pilings in this 1973 New York 8mm waterfront view. — A docked motor yacht faces the camera while sailboat masts rise along the marina.

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