New York--1946: Ships And Boats In A Busy Harbor

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

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New York--1946: Ships And Boats In A Busy Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a bustling harbor scene from New York. Through a window frame, several ships and boats navigate the water, including a prominent large vessel and a smaller tugboat. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, faded blue and purple color tones, and vertical scratches. The view suggests a dockside perspective, with industrial structures visible in the foreground. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century 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: 125784614

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 New York harbor coverage, maritime history inserts, port activity cutaways, or documentary sequences needing real home-movie waterfront material.
Period detail: The window-framed harbor view may show mid-1940s working waterfront clues in the tugboat, larger vessel, pier edge, and simple industrial railing or gantry in the foreground.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a visitor or resident filming harbor traffic from indoors or a sheltered dockside position, with no staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark window frame, blue harbor water, a small tugboat, a larger ship offshore, a dock or pier edge, and metal waterfront structure in silhouette.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, bluish faded color, visible grain, vertical scratches, and slight handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing insert, maritime cutaway, transition between city and waterfront scenes, or quiet memory beat for New York harbor activity.
Historical context: The footage places industrial waterfront movement within a home-movie view, showing boats at work on open harbor water rather than a formal port overview.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any property or vessel identification should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s New York harbor 8mm, vintage tugboat home movie, ships in busy harbor, and waterfront dock view may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 New York waterfront footage, then broader 1940s harbor, tugboat, ship, and industrial port scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 New York harbor view through a dark window frame, with a small tugboat crossing near a pier and a larger ship offshore. — A tugboat moves across the harbor below a larger vessel seen beyond the dock structure.

1946 New York harbor footage shows a tugboat near a dark pier structure, with a larger vessel in the distance across blue water. — The tugboat continues past the pier while a larger ship remains offshore in the hazy distance.

A 1946 New York harbor view from behind a window or dockside opening, showing a tugboat below and a larger vessel offshore. — The foreground pier and window framing narrow the view of harbor traffic beyond.

1946 New York harbor scene with a silhouetted pier structure in front, a large vessel offshore, and part of a tugboat at the frame edge. — A silhouetted waterfront structure frames the distant ship as the tugboat slips partly out of view.

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