New York-1948: Men Walking On The Beach Talking Many People Enjoying Themselves

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

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Men Walking On The Beach Talking Many People Enjoying... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1948 captures a sunny day at a New York beach. Men in light-colored suits stroll along the sand, talking and enjoying the seaside. The scene includes a rocky foreground, colorful beach umbrellas, and a large building on a hillside overlooking the water. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home movies. A separate clip shows a hand holding up a freshly caught fish with a distinctive striped pattern, its mouth open against the backdrop of the ocean.

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: 127560581

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 beach leisure requests needing brief home-movie views of suited men walking by the shore and a related fishing cutaway.
Period detail: The light suits, beach umbrellas, 8mm color look, and metadata-supported 1948 date place the scene in a mid-century seaside leisure setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged home-movie value in its casual walk along the sand, distant beachgoers, and a quick close view of a freshly caught fish.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a striped fish held near the surf, pale beach sand, rocky foreground, ocean water, umbrellas or beach windbreaks, hillside buildings, and men walking.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and exposure shifts that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short seaside memory beat, a beach-life insert, a fishing cutaway, or a transition within a mid-century New York leisure sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows postwar-era beach recreation through a private camera view, with dressed men strolling near swimmers and shoreline structures rather than a staged travel scene.
Research note: People and some faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from any location or personal rights review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1948 New York beach home movie, 8mm men walking on sand, vintage seaside leisure, and caught fish by ocean would match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1948 New York beach material, and then with broader mid-century seaside leisure or fishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm home-movie frame of a hand holding a striped fish near the surf at a New York beach. — A freshly caught fish is held up close to the camera beside the ocean.

A suited man walks along a New York beach with rocks, distant beachgoers, hillside buildings, and ocean visible. — A man in a light suit walks along the sand toward the shoreline activity.

Two men in suits walk across a New York beach in 1948, with rocky shore, umbrellas, distant people, and ocean in view. — Two men stroll across the beach near rocks and seaside buildings.

Two suited men walk and appear to talk on a 1948 New York beach, with surf, umbrellas, rocks, and hillside buildings behind them. — Two men walk together along the beach as the ocean and hillside buildings fill the background.

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