New York-1948: Sailboat on Blue Water with Coastline

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

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Sailboat on Blue Water with Coastline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a sailboat with its white sails fully unfurled gliding across bright blue water. The scene unfolds along a serene coastline with a forested hillside dotted with houses in the background. A cylindrical buoy floats nearby, and other boats are visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic summer day. This archival clip offers authentic 1940s Americana for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 127560849

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: 1948 New York 8mm boating footage for editors needing a brief coastal recreation insert, nautical transition, or mid-century summer leisure cutaway.
Period detail: The small sailboat, distant moored boats, hillside houses, and saturated 8mm color may show postwar recreational boating along a New York shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from shore or a raised waterside vantage as the sailboat passes, giving the scene the informal patience of a family travel or leisure film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-sailed small boat, bright blue water, a cylindrical buoy, distant sailboats, wooded shoreline, hillside houses, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, deep blue color saturation, soft focus at distance, and slight exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nautical cutaway, summer memory beat, shoreline transition, or establishing insert for mid-century recreation.
Historical context: The footage visually situates leisure sailing within a coastal residential landscape, without enough detail to identify a specific harbor, town, or event.
Research note: People appear small aboard the sailboat, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1948 New York 8mm sailboat, vintage home movie boating, mid-century coastal recreation, blue water sailboat buoy, and 1940s shoreline houses.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed 1948 New York waterfront material, then with broader vintage boating or summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a small sailboat on bright blue water, a floating cylindrical buoy, and hillside houses in the distance. — A small sailboat moves across blue water near a cylindrical buoy, with a wooded shoreline and houses beyond.

1948 New York home-movie frame with a white-sailed boat on deep blue water, a nearby buoy, distant boats, and shoreline houses. — The sailboat continues past a floating buoy while distant boats and houses line the wooded shore.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a white-sailed boat moving across blue water with a buoy and residential wooded shoreline beyond. — A white-sailed boat glides across the water below a wooded residential shoreline.

1948 New York home-movie frame of a small sailboat on bright water, with a cylindrical buoy, moored boats, trees, and hillside homes behind. — The sailboat remains centered on the water as a buoy floats in front of the distant hillside shore.

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