New York-1948: Sailboat Gliding Across Blue Water With Floating Buoy

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

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Sailboat Gliding Across Blue Water With Floating Buoy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a classic sailboat gliding across deep blue water in New York. The white-sailed yacht moves steadily through the calm sea, with a large cylindrical buoy floating nearby. In the distance, a shoreline dotted with houses and trees frames the scene. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse of maritime life. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1940s Americana.

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: 127560838

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1940s New York recreational sailing, maritime cutaways, and period home-movie atmosphere for documentary or editorial production.
Period detail: The white-sailed boat, moored craft, buoy, and distant shoreline houses may show mid-century leisure boating in a New York waterfront setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged shore-based home-movie view, watching a small sailboat pass steadily across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white sailboat, deep blue water, a cylindrical floating buoy, moored boats, shoreline trees, and distant houses.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, and slight handheld framing consistent with amateur color home movies of the period.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, a quiet transition, or a memory beat between scenes about waterfront recreation or postwar leisure.
Historical context: The scene suggests casual small-boat activity near a residential shoreline without supporting identification of a specific harbor, club, or event.
Research note: People may be present aboard the boat but faces are not readable; copyright, likeness, property, and location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1948 New York 8mm sailboat, vintage home movie sailing, blue water buoy, and 1940s waterfront recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York waterfront footage, then broader vintage sailing or boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame of a white-sailed boat moving across blue water near a floating buoy and distant wooded shore. — A white sailboat passes across blue water near a floating buoy, with houses and trees on the far shore.

A white-sailed yacht continues across blue water in the 1948 New York home-movie scene, with a buoy in the foreground distance. — The sailboat moves farther across the frame while the cylindrical buoy remains nearby on the water.

1948 New York waterfront frame showing a small sailboat turning or passing near a cylindrical buoy, with shoreline homes in the distance. — The sailboat appears smaller and more angled against the blue water, with the buoy and shoreline still visible.

Final 1948 New York 8mm frame with the sailboat drifting right of center, a floating buoy nearby, and a wooded shoreline beyond. — The sailboat continues toward the right side of the frame as the buoy floats in the foreground area.

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