New York-1948: Someone Films A Stone Water Front While On A Boat

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Someone Films A Stone Water Front While On A Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront scene from a boat. The view shows a stone embankment with a small white-framed structure, possibly a dockside sign or utility post, set against lush green trees. The water is calm, reflecting the soft light of the day, and the footage has the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century amateur film. The perspective suggests a slow, steady movement along the shoreline, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet waterfront moment.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560273

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 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful 1940s New York 8mm waterfront material for documentary inserts, travel context, or quiet shoreline cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century waterfront landscaping, a stone quay, simple benches, steps, and a white-framed dockside sign or gate.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot boat perspective, observing the shoreline from across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling water, a stone embankment, low steps, trees, benches, a white rectangular frame, and a small sign-like panel.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated color, visible grain, gate shadows, and slight handheld movement from filming on the water.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a waterfront establishing insert, travel transition, or calm memory beat between more active New York scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a quiet shoreline view in archival home-movie form, emphasizing built waterfront edges and recreational green space.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location and property identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s New York 8mm waterfront footage, boat-shot stone shoreline, vintage home movie water cutaway, and dockside embankment scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel boat views, then other 1948 New York waterfront clips, then broader vintage shoreline and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a stone waterfront, green trees, benches, rippling water, and a white-framed dockside feature. — Boat-shot view of a stone shoreline with trees and a white-framed waterfront feature.

1948 New York boat view of a stone embankment beside water, with trees, benches, steps, and a white dockside frame. — Stone waterfront and green shoreline seen from a moving boat.

1948 New York 8mm frame with a stone shoreline, white-framed feature, steps, trees, benches, and blue-green water. — Closer boat-shot glimpse of the stone waterfront and white-framed shoreline feature.

Late frame from 1948 New York 8mm footage showing water, a stone embankment, trees, benches, and a white shoreline frame. — Final shoreline view with rippling water and stone waterfront landscaping.

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