New York-1948: Sailboat Sailing In The Sea With Houses And Trees In The Background

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

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Sailboat Sailing In The Sea With Houses And Trees In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a sailboat gliding across calm blue waters, its white sail fully unfurled. In the background, a shoreline dotted with houses and trees suggests a quiet coastal community. A large cylindrical buoy floats nearby, adding to the maritime scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a slightly faded quality characteristic of mid-century home movies. The camera remains steady, offering a serene, nostalgic view of a peaceful day on the water.

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: 127560875

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 home-movie sailing footage suited for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a quiet coastal waterway cutaway.
Period detail: The small sailboat, shoreline houses, moored boats, and buoy may show a mid-century recreational boating scene along a New York waterfront.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie perspective, watching a sailboat pass across calm water from a fixed shore or boat vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-sailed boat, blue water, a cylindrical buoy, distant shoreline houses, trees, moored sailboats, and low wooded hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and steady framing typical of amateur mid-century film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, regional transition, leisure cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday recreational sailing near a residential shoreline, offering visual context for leisure and waterfront life without identifying a specific harbor.
Research note: People may be present on the sailboat but are not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any shoreline property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1948 New York 8mm sailboat, vintage home movie sailing, coastal houses on water, and mid-century recreational boating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1948 New York waterfront material, then broader vintage sailing, buoy, shoreline, and leisure boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a small white sailboat on blue water, with a cylindrical buoy and distant shoreline houses behind it. — A small sailboat passes near a floating cylindrical buoy with shoreline homes in the distance.

1948 New York 8mm frame of a white-sailed boat moving across blue water near a buoy, with trees, houses, and moored boats along the far shore. — The sailboat holds its course across the water as a buoy floats in the foreground area.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a small sailboat with a bright white sail, a nearby cylindrical buoy, and a residential shoreline in the background. — The sailboat appears closer to the buoy, with the distant shore and houses softly rendered behind it.

1948 New York 8mm frame of a white sailboat gliding on calm blue water, with a buoy in the lower right and houses along the far shoreline. — A white-sailed boat continues across the frame while the buoy and residential shoreline remain visible.

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