New York-1948: A Beautiful Day At The Beach With Nice Palm Trees

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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A Beautiful Day At The Beach With Nice Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene tropical beach scene from New York. Sun-drenched palm trees line a sandy shore, with a small dock floating in the turquoise water. The footage shows gentle waves lapping the coast and a quiet, peaceful atmosphere, evoking mid-century Americana. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a soft focus, with a dark border framing the image. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a leisurely day by the water, perfect for historical or nostalgic content.

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: 127560313

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1940s 8mm home-movie beach footage for editors needing a brief tropical shoreline insert, travel-memory beat, or waterside establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century leisure shoreline with palm trees, a small floating dock, dark film-frame borders, and color reversal home-movie texture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from across the water like a casual visitor or traveler filming the beach rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a narrow sandy beach, palm trees, coastal shrubs, rocks, a small floating dock, and tiny distant figures near the shore.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight color shift toward blue and violet, uneven exposure, and gate-edge borders that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Use it as a calm shoreline cutaway, travel transition, nostalgic water insert, or reflective memory beat within a mid-century vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents leisure-oriented waterfront space with tropical plantings and a quiet beach setting, without identifying a landmark or specific event.
Research note: Distant people appear visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are legible, but copyright and location or property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm beach footage, vintage palm tree shoreline, home movie tropical water, small dock by beach, and mid-century vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with New York 1948 waterfront material, and then with broader vintage beach, travel, and palm-tree leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm home-movie frame of a palm-lined beach seen across blue water, with a small floating dock and distant figures near the sand. — A palm-lined beach is filmed from across the water, with a small floating dock in the foreground.

1948 8mm frame looking toward a palm-lined shore with blue water, pale sand, rocks, and distant people near the beach. — The camera holds on a quiet shoreline with palms, rocks, and small figures by the sand.

Soft 1948 8mm view across blue water toward a palm-lined sandy beach with rocks and dense shoreline greenery. — A palm-lined beach and rocky edge appear across the water in a soft home-movie frame.

1948 8mm frame of blue water and a narrow palm-lined beach, with rocks and shoreline vegetation visible beyond the sand. — Blue water fills the foreground beneath a narrow beach lined with palms, shrubs, and rocks.

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