New York-1948: Motorboat Speeding Across Water

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

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Motorboat Speeding Across Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of a small motorboat speeding across calm waters, leaving a white wake behind. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting footage viewed through a window or projector. In the background, a low-lying shoreline with scattered white buildings and trees is visible under an overcast sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American coastal moment. The boat moves steadily from left to right, offering a fleeting glimpse of mid-20th century water recreation.

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: 127560506

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s editorial sequences needing a brief coastal New York home-movie view of a small motorboat crossing open water.
Period detail: The 8mm color, distant shoreline, and small motorboat may show mid-century recreational boating or harbor traffic in New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, watching a boat pass from a fixed shoreline or vessel-facing position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a small speeding motorboat, white wake, low shoreline, pale buildings, trees, dark frame edges, and overcast sky.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, faded color, slight blur, and dark gate edges that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, travel insert, waterfront transition, or memory beat between New York exterior scenes.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for postwar-era leisure or local water movement without identifying a specific harbor, event, or vessel.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but copyright status and any property or vessel identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm home movie motorboat, vintage shoreline water footage, distant boat wake, and mid-century coastal recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel waterfront shots, then other 1948 New York views, then broader vintage boating, shoreline, and water-recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a distant low shoreline, pale buildings, trees, and calm blue water through dark frame edges. — A distant shoreline sits across calm water at the start of the clip.

1948 New York 8mm frame with a small motorboat moving across blue water near a low shoreline and distant structures. — A small motorboat crosses the water with a bright white wake behind it.

1948 New York home-movie frame showing a distant motorboat on rippled blue water, backed by a low shoreline and pale sky. — The boat remains distant as it moves across the frame over rippled water.

1948 New York 8mm frame of a small motorboat continuing across open water with a white wake and low land in the background. — The motorboat continues across the water as the wake spreads behind it.

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