New York-1949: Visiting The Statue Of Liberty On A Sunny Afternoon In New York

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 New York

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Visiting The Statue Of Liberty On A Sunny Afternoon In... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1949, this vintage home movie captures the Statue of Liberty on a bright afternoon. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of old film reels, shows the iconic monument against a pale sky, with a tree visible in the lower left. The image exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, preserving the authentic look of a mid-century personal travel recording. The camera remains steady, focusing on the statue's upper portion, evoking a sense of nostalgia and personal memory from a classic New York visit.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125782779

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1949 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s New York travel footage for documentary, museum, educational, or editorial sequences needing a brief visitor view of the Statue of Liberty.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, contact-frame borders, and visitor framing support a late-1940s home-movie record of a major New York landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a tourist-shot perspective, holding on the statue from a distance as a personal travel memory rather than a staged production view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Statue of Liberty, torch, crown spikes, pedestal edge, pale sky, dark film borders, frame lines, and nearby tree foliage.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight scratches, and gate borders give the shot authentic mid-century 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short landmark insert, travel transition, New York memory beat, or archival cutaway within a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The footage places a well-known public monument within a casual postwar visitor record, without showing crowds, signage, or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or monument-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1949 8mm Statue of Liberty footage, vintage New York travel home movie, and 1940s Liberty Island tourist film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1949 New York or Statue of Liberty material, then with broader vintage U.S. tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 New York 8mm frame showing the Statue of Liberty from the torso upward, with pale sky, tree foliage, and visible film gate edges. — The Statue of Liberty framed from below with tree foliage at the edge of the shot.

1949 New York home-movie frame with the Statue of Liberty partly cropped at right, showing the torch, crown, robe, and pale sky. — A slightly cropped view of the statue emphasizes the torch and upper figure.

1949 New York 8mm frame showing the Statue of Liberty from a visitor viewpoint, with the torch raised into the pale sky and foliage at lower left. — The statue appears lower in the frame, with surrounding sky and a small area of foliage.

1949 New York home-movie frame showing the Statue of Liberty from the upper pedestal upward, with nearby foliage and visible 8mm film borders. — The monument is held steadily in frame, with the pedestal edge and foliage visible below.

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