New York--1946: Ships and Boats in Harbor View

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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 Harbor View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a bustling harbor scene from New York. The view, framed by a dark window edge, shows several large ships and smaller boats on the water, with a dock structure in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and a cool blue-gray color palette typical of the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime activity and transportation.

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: 125784615

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary edits needing a brief New York harbor view with ships, small boats, and pier structures from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-1940s harbor activity, with large vessels offshore, smaller boats near a dock, and simple waterfront railings or gantry-like structures.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, filmed from behind a dark window or structural edge while observing harbor traffic from a fixed vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include large ships, small boats, open water, a dock edge, foreground rail or scaffold structure, distant shoreline, and dark window framing.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, cool blue-gray color, mild exposure fluctuation, and dark frame edges that add period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, New York establishing insert, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat around port activity.
Historical context: The images provide visual context for waterfront movement and harbor observation without identifying a specific pier, vessel, operator, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel, location, property, and copyright status should be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1940s New York harbor home movie, 8mm ships in harbor, vintage boats at dock, and archival waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1946 New York views, and then with broader harbor, ship, dock, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 New York harbor view with a large ship on the water, foreground dock structure, and dark framing at the edges. — Large vessel seen beyond a foreground dock structure in New York harbor.

Static 1946 New York harbor shot with a distant ship, pier railings, water, and dark vertical frame edge. — Distant ship and dock framework viewed from a shaded foreground position.

1946 New York harbor scene with small boats near the dock and larger vessels farther offshore. — Small boats move across the harbor below larger ships in the distance.

New York harbor in 1946, showing small boats, distant large ships, dock framework, and soft 8mm color. — Harbor traffic seen through a foreground dock structure and dark frame edge.

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