New York--1946: Ferry Boats In One Busy Sea

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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New York--1946: Ferry Boats In One Busy Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a bustling harbor scene from New York. Viewed through a ship's porthole, the frame is filled with rigging and masts, with several ferry boats and larger vessels moving across the water. The footage shows a busy maritime environment with multiple ships in the distance, including a large cargo or passenger vessel. The image has the characteristic grain, color fading, and slight blurriness of mid-century 8mm film, evoking a strong sense of historical nostalgia and maritime activity.

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: 125784604

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary edits needing New York harbor traffic, ferry activity, or shipboard views from amateur 8mm footage.
Period detail: The rigging, masts, funnels, and distant ferry-like vessels may show mid-century harbor transport consistent with the 1946 New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from behind ship structure or a porthole-like opening, giving the scene a passenger or visitor viewpoint rather than a staged harbor survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ship rigging, vertical masts, a dark rounded deck structure, blue water, distant ferry boats, and a larger vessel near the horizon.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, gate edges, and slight handheld or vessel movement that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor insert, maritime transition, travel-memory beat, or contextual cutaway for New York waterfront sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows a busy working harbor environment with multiple vessels moving across open water, without identifiable people or readable markings in these frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but vessel identity, location confirmation, and copyright status should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s New York harbor 8mm footage, ferry boats on busy water, shipboard porthole view, and vintage maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 New York harbor clips, then broader ferry, ship, and waterfront transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 New York harbor view through ship rigging, with a distant vessel crossing blue water. — Shipboard rigging and masts partially obscure a distant vessel on the harbor.

Shipboard 8mm view of New York harbor with rigging in front and ferry-like vessels in the distance. — Rigging and mast lines create a layered view of ferry-like traffic across the harbor.

New York harbor scene with ship masts, rigging, blue water, and small distant boats from a 1946 home movie. — A shipboard foreground of masts and rigging looks out toward small boats on the harbor.

1946 New York harbor traffic seen from a vessel, with rigging, a rounded deck structure, and distant boats on the water. — Distant boats move across the harbor beyond the ship's rigging and deck structure.

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