New Jersey-1938: Small Boat Gliding on Night Water

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 New Jersey

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Small Boat Gliding on Night Water — Clip Details

NEW JERSEY-1938: A small boat glides across dark, rippling water under a night sky, captured on grainy 8mm film. The distant vessel leaves a faint wake, its silhouette barely visible against the horizon. The footage, shot in low light, shows the characteristic grain and soft focus of vintage home movies, evoking a quiet, mysterious atmosphere. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of early 20th-century maritime travel, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267242

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: 1938 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 Jersey, 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

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: 1930s New Jersey home-movie footage of a small boat on dark water can support documentary edits needing a brief maritime night or dusk cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a small low-profile boat on open water, with few visible era clues beyond the 8mm source and the supplied 1938 New Jersey metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a home-movie camera watching a distant vessel rather than a staged maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rippling water, a faint horizon, a small boat silhouette, a pale wake or reflection, heavy grain, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has strong grain, low-light exposure, soft focus, and uneven frame borders that give the scene a distinctly physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, moody transition, or memory beat for coastal travel, night water, or quiet maritime atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage places a small boat against open water in an archival home-movie view, but the frames do not identify a harbor, shoreline, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright and source-licensing status should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New Jersey 8mm boat on water, vintage home movie small boat, dark sea footage, and 1930s maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1938 New Jersey coastal footage, and then with other vintage small-boat or water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame showing dark water and a barely visible small boat silhouette in low light. — A small distant vessel is barely visible against dark rippling water.

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame with a small boat and pale wake or reflection on dark open water. — The boat appears as a low silhouette with a faint pale streak on the water.

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame showing a distant small boat moving across dark rippling water. — A low, distant boat moves across the water in soft low-light focus.

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame with a small distant boat near the horizon over dark water. — The vessel remains near the horizon, partly lost in the dark grain of the film.

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