New York-1948: Old Footage Of Boat Cruising Along Coast In Calm Sea And Cloudy

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

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Old Footage Of Boat Cruising Along Coast In Calm Sea And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat cruising across calm blue waters along a distant coastline. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of old film reels, shows the boat moving from left to right, leaving a white wake behind. The sky is overcast with soft, diffused light, and the distant shore features low hills and faint structures. The image exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, preserving the authentic look of a mid-century home movie. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and everyday life by the sea.

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: 127560518

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 New York coastal or maritime archive requests needing brief home-movie footage of a small motorboat moving across calm water.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, distant low shoreline, and small open motorboat support a late-1940s leisure or local-waterway setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a shore- or boat-side home movie, watching an everyday craft pass through open water without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a small motorboat, a white wake, overcast sky, distant shoreline, low hills, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, scratches, and slight frame instability give the scan a recognizable mid-century 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short maritime cutaway, coastal transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for quiet water activity.
Historical context: The footage reflects casual mid-century boating or waterfront observation in a New York coastal setting, though the exact waterway and shoreline remain unidentified.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are clearly visible, but users should still assess copyright status separately from location or vessel-identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm boat footage, vintage home movie motorboat on calm sea, and 1940s coastal waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York waterfront material, then broader vintage boating or coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a small motorboat moving across calm water near a low distant coast. — A small motorboat leaves a white wake across calm water near a distant shoreline.

1948 New York coastal home-movie frame with a small motorboat passing over calm blue water under cloudy sky. — The motorboat continues across the frame, trailing a bright wake against the blue water.

1948 New York 8mm still with a small motorboat near the coast, seen through grainy home-movie framing. — The boat appears nearer the left side of the view, with low land and open water behind it.

1948 New York coastal frame showing a small motorboat and wake against a low shoreline and cloudy sky. — A small motorboat travels across the water, leaving a narrow white wake below the distant coast.

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