New York-1948: View Of White Buildings Blue Sea Water And Trees On A Cloudy Day

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

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View Of White Buildings Blue Sea Water And Trees On A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal view from across the water. White buildings with domed roofs and terracotta tiles dot a green hillside, nestled among leafy trees. The calm blue sea stretches in the foreground, with a rocky shoreline visible. The sky is overcast with soft, diffused light, creating a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere. The footage shows slight camera movement, typical of handheld Super 8 recordings, with natural film grain and color fading characteristic of mid-century home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560467

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: 1940s 8mm coastal establishing footage suited for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a quiet waterside New York view.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century resort or shoreline architecture, with pale buildings, low roofs, trees, rocky shore, and open water visible across the bay.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing distant waterfront buildings from across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, rocky shoreline, white waterfront buildings, low trees, hillside vegetation, pale sky, and soft cloud cover.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows gentle grain, slight softness, mild color fading, rounded frame edges, and small handheld shifts that give the footage archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, a quiet transition, a location cutaway, or a reflective memory beat within a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The view documents shoreline leisure or residential architecture as seen by an amateur camera, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1948 New York coastal home movie, 1940s 8mm waterfront buildings, blue water shoreline view, and vintage seaside architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York coastal views, then broader mid-century shoreline and home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing pale waterfront buildings, trees, rocks, and blue water under soft cloud cover. — White shoreline buildings and trees sit beyond calm blue water on an overcast day.

1948 New York 8mm view of distant pale buildings and trees along a rocky shore across blue water. — A cluster of pale buildings lines the far shoreline beyond the blue water.

1948 New York coastal frame with low pale buildings, trees, rocky shoreline, and calm water in the foreground. — The camera holds on low shoreline buildings backed by trees and an overcast sky.

1948 New York home-movie still of white shoreline buildings, green vegetation, rocks, and calm blue water. — White buildings and shoreline vegetation remain in view across the water.

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