New York-1948: Beautiful Ocean View With A Lot Of Plants And A Perfect Blue Sky

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

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Beautiful Ocean View With A Lot Of Plants And A Perfect... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene ocean view from a moving vessel. The clip shows calm blue waters stretching to the horizon, with small rocky islands and tropical vegetation visible in the distance. The sky is a clear, bright blue with scattered white clouds, creating a peaceful, sun-drenched atmosphere. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a dark border framing the scene, suggesting a personal travel memory. This archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and coastal nostalgia.

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: 127560346

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 for 1940s home-movie requests needing a brief coastal ocean view, boat-perspective travel insert, or quiet blue-water establishing shot.
Period detail: The metadata dates the clip to 1948, while the visible frames show only shoreline buildings, tropical-looking vegetation, rocky islets, sea, and sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler filming casually from a moving vessel, holding on the waterline and distant shore rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, pale sky, rocky islets, a distant shoreline, trees or palms, white buildings, film gate edges, and light clouds.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure shifts, color fading, and dark frame edges that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, coastal memory beat, or atmospheric insert between stronger narrative scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a mid-century leisure-travel viewpoint, with the camera oriented toward open water and distant shoreline scenery rather than people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are indicated, but copyright, location, shoreline structures, and property-identification issues should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm ocean view, vintage home movie from a boat, blue coastal water, rocky island cutaway, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York or 1948 travel material, then with broader coastal water and boat-view footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm frame showing calm water from a vessel, with a distant shoreline, white buildings, trees, and light clouds. — A distant shoreline with white buildings and trees appears across calm blue water.

1948 8mm frame looking across blue water toward low rocky islets and a pale sky, with the vessel viewpoint implied by framing. — Low rocky islets sit beyond calm blue water under a pale sky.

1948 8mm frame of a low rocky islet and small offshore rocks seen across blue water under a hazy sky. — The camera holds on rocky islets and open water, with no people visible.

1948 8mm frame showing a rocky islet, small offshore rocks, open blue water, and pale sky within dark film borders. — A rocky islet and small rocks remain in view across the blue water.

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