New York-1948: Small Tan Object Floating in Blue Water

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

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Small Tan Object Floating in Blue Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a small tan object floating in calm blue water under a bright, sunny sky. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 projection, shows gentle waves and a distant horizon with faint landforms. The grainy texture and slightly faded color palette evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a quiet moment of nature from mid-20th century America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560368

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: This 1948 New York 8mm clip can support documentary or educational edits needing a quiet mid-century waterfront cutaway without people or identifiable activity.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm home-movie imagery with a distant horizon, calm blue water, and small tan and dark shapes that may be rocks, boats, or floating objects.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie gaze held on open water, suggesting a traveler or family filmer pausing to record a simple coastal or lakeside view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a pale sky, a low horizon, a small tan object, several dark distant shapes, light wave texture, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, faded color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical character of the source film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat between busier New York home-movie scenes from the same period.
Historical context: The view documents an ordinary 1940s leisure or travel perspective on water rather than a specific landmark, event, vessel, or named location.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1948 New York 8mm water view, vintage home movie blue water, mid-century waterfront cutaway, and 1940s outdoor horizon footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1948 New York water or shoreline footage, and finally with calm nature or travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing calm blue water, a pale sky, and small distant tan and dark shapes near the horizon. — Calm water and distant small shapes under a bright sky.

1948 New York 8mm frame with a small tan distant object on calm blue water and several darker shapes along the horizon. — Small tan and dark distant forms sit near the waterline.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a wide blue-water view with a tan distant object and dark forms near the horizon. — A wide, quiet view of water with small distant forms.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing calm blue water, a pale sky, and distant tan and dark objects near the waterline. — Distant objects break the low horizon over calm water.

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