New York-1948: Man Walking On Tropical Beach With Yellow Tent And Blue Sky

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

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Man Walking On Tropical Beach With Yellow Tent And Blue Sky — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and dark shorts walks along a tropical beach shoreline in this 8mm home movie from 1948. The scene features a bright yellow tent on the white sand, a large rock formation, and gentle waves lapping the shore under a vivid blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, capturing a nostalgic moment of leisure and vacation. The camera remains stationary, focusing on the solitary figure against the expansive beach and ocean backdrop.

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: 127560620

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: Supports 1940s editorial needs for leisure travel, beach recreation, and home-movie vacation atmosphere with a solitary figure on a shoreline.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, simple beach clothing, and tent-like shade may show mid-century vacation filming, with the 1948 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The distant walker and fixed viewpoint give the scene an unstaged home-movie quality focused on a quiet moment at the waterline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on the beach, white sand, blue ocean, low surf, a bright yellow tent, a large rock, and open sky.
Film character: The scan shows saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, travel insert, shoreline transition, or memory beat within a mid-century vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational beachgoing as captured by a private camera, without visible landmarks or signs that identify the exact shore.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and contextual use should be reviewed separately; no logos or private property are apparent.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1948 8mm beach home movie, man walking shoreline, yellow beach tent, vintage vacation footage, and mid-century ocean cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York beach material, then broader 1940s vacation and shoreline scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm beach frame with a distant man by the surf, a yellow tent on white sand, a large rock, blue water, and open sky. — A distant man walks along the beach near low waves, with a yellow tent and large rock in the foreground.

Home-movie beach view from 1948 metadata, showing a man near the waterline, yellow tent, large rock, white sand, and blue ocean. — The walker remains near the shoreline while the fixed camera holds the tent, rock, surf, and sky.

8mm beach frame with the man walking left of the rock, a partial yellow tent, pale sand, blue sea, and visible film texture. — The figure moves along the beach as the yellow tent slips partly out of frame and the rock anchors the foreground.

1948 home-movie shoreline frame with a lone man near the surf, a large beach rock, white sand, blue water, and saturated sky. — The final frame holds the man near the surf line with the large rock in the foreground and ocean beyond.

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