New York-1948: Woman Dressed In White Enjoying A Beautiful Day At The Beach

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

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Woman Dressed In White Enjoying A Beautiful Day At The Beach — Clip Details

A woman in a white dress sits on a rock at the edge of a sandy beach, gazing out at the ocean under a deep blue sky. Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, contemplative moment with rich color saturation and film grain. The waves gently roll onto the shore, and the scene evokes a sense of peaceful solitude and mid-century Americana. The footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or editorial projects exploring 1940s leisure and coastal life.

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: 127560657

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: 1940s New York beach home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts on coastal leisure, solitude, summer memory, or mid-century everyday life.
Period detail: The white dress, sparse beach setting, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1940s leisure scene, though no landmark or exact shoreline is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged quiet moment, with a woman seated alone on a beach rock and looking toward the ocean rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in white, sandy beach, low shoreline rocks, ocean waves, deep blue sky, scattered beach debris, and contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight frame variation that give the beach scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a reflective cutaway, memory beat, transition into coastal material, or quiet insert within a 1940s family or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a simple beach outing and solitary ocean viewing, offering visual context for informal mid-century recreation without identifying the beach or occasion.
Research note: A person is visible from behind, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, private property, or landmarks are visible, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York beach home movie, 1940s woman by ocean, 8mm coastal leisure footage, and vintage beach solitude scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with other 1948 New York beach footage, then with broader 1940s coastal leisure or quiet summer memory material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame of a woman in white sitting on a sandy beach rock and looking toward the ocean. — A woman in white sits alone near the shoreline, facing the water.

1948 New York beach frame showing a woman in white seated near shoreline rocks with the ocean in the background. — The seated figure remains turned toward the water as small waves reach the shore.

1948 New York 8mm frame of a solitary woman on a sandy beach, seated by rocks and facing the ocean. — A quiet beach view frames the woman from behind with the ocean stretching across the background.

1948 New York beach frame with a woman in white seated beside rocks, looking out toward the blue ocean. — The final frame holds on the woman seated at the edge of the beach near the waves.

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