New York-1948: Boy at Beach and Coastal Town

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

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Boy at Beach and Coastal Town — Clip Details

A young boy in a white shirt sits on a rock at the edge of a sandy beach, gazing out at the calm blue sea under a clear sky. The scene transitions to a view from a boat, showing a coastal town with white buildings nestled on a green hillside overlooking the water. Small boats float near a pier, and the footage captures the quiet charm of a 1948 seaside moment. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie displays natural color shifts and film grain, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day in New York.

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: 127560689

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 home-movie requests needing a brief seaside insert, beach memory beat, or coastal town view from the water.
Period detail: The 8mm color, simple beach clothing, small boats, waterfront buildings, and undeveloped-looking hillside may show a mid-century coastal resort or harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-travel feel, moving from a lone beach sitter to a visitor's boat-side view across calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sandy beach, seated person on a rock, blue water, small boats, pier or shoreline edge, white waterfront buildings, and a wooded hillside.
Film character: The scan shows handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, blue color shift, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges from the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet transition from beach recreation to harbor travel, or as a short cutaway for coastal summer memory.
Historical context: The clip visually places leisure and waterside travel within a mid-century New York home-movie context without identifying a specific town or landmark.
Research note: People and waterfront property appear at a distance, so likeness and property review may still be needed separate from copyright or source licensing checks.
Research search match: Searches for 1948 New York 8mm beach footage, vintage coastal town from boat, mid-century harbor home movie, or 1940s seaside vacation may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1948 waterfront footage, then broader 1940s beach, boat, and harbor home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing a distant person seated on a shoreline rock beside sand and calm blue water. — A seated figure rests on a beach rock at the water's edge.

1948 New York coastal view from a boat, with small craft on the water and white buildings below a wooded hillside. — A harbor or coastal town is seen across the water from a moving boat.

Mid-century New York home-movie frame with boats on calm water, a shoreline structure, and hillside houses in the distance. — Small boats cross the water in front of shoreline buildings and hillside homes.

1948 New York boat-view frame showing a waterfront, small boats, hillside buildings, and part of the filming vessel at right. — The camera looks past boat fittings toward a quiet waterfront and hillside settlement.

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