New York-1948: Steam-Powered Boat in Harbor

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

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Steam-Powered Boat in Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this low-fidelity home movie captures a steam-powered boat navigating calm blue waters near a coastal town. The vessel, with its prominent smokestack emitting faint steam, moves steadily through the harbor as a small sailboat glides in the distance. White buildings dot the lush green hillside across the water under a clear sky. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of vintage Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century maritime life and transportation.

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: 127560706

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 editorial or documentary requests needing New York harbor or coastal town home-movie views with steam-powered boat traffic.
Period detail: The steam vessel, small sailboat, distant shoreline buildings, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century leisure and transport along a New York waterfront.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot harbor perspective, watching passing water traffic from a distance without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, a steam boat with smokestack, faint steam, a small sailboat, shoreline buildings, wooded hillside, and clear sky.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, slight color shift, and handheld framing across the water.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime cutaway, travel transition, period waterfront insert, or quiet memory beat in a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places small craft and steam-powered harbor movement against a settled shoreline, suggesting everyday coastal transportation or recreation.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, vessel identification, and distant property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 8mm New York harbor footage, vintage steam boat home movie, mid-century waterfront, coastal town, and sailboat cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1948 New York waterfront material, then broader vintage harbor, steam boat, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm view of a steam boat on New York harbor water, with a small sailboat and hillside buildings in the distance. — A steam boat passes across blue harbor water near a distant shoreline.

Home-movie frame of a New York harbor scene, showing a steam boat foreground, a small sailboat, and white buildings along the far shore. — The vessel remains in the foreground as the shoreline and sailboat sit beyond it.

Soft 8mm harbor view from 1948 New York, with a steam boat at the edge of frame and a small sailboat near shoreline buildings. — A steam boat and small sailboat share the harbor in a distant coastal-town view.

New York 1948 home-movie frame showing a steam boat in the foreground, faint steam, open water, and a distant settled shoreline. — Light steam rises from the boat while the harbor and hillside town remain in view.

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