New York-1948: View Of White Sailboat At The Blue Lake And Sky On A Bright Sunny

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

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View Of White Sailboat At The Blue Lake And Sky On A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal scene in New York. A white sailboat glides across deep blue water under a bright, sunny sky, with a distant shoreline dotted with houses and trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century leisure. The camera remains steady, focusing on the sailboat's movement and the tranquil harbor environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560933

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 New York home-movie requests needing a calm recreational waterfront insert or coastal leisure cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century shoreline houses, moored sailboats, and small craft, with no visible modern vehicles, signage, or branded details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view across open water, following a white sailboat from a steady amateur vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a white sailboat, distant houses, low wooded hills, moored boats, small craft, and a clear blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image shows saturated blue color, soft focus, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and visible film grain that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a quiet transition, leisure-memory beat, waterfront establishing insert, or cutaway within a mid-century New York sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and shoreline viewing in a domestic travel or family-film context, without identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright status and any location-based property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1948 New York 8mm sailboat, 1940s home movie harbor, vintage lake boating, and blue water shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront shots, then with 1948 New York material, then with broader boating, lake, harbor, and summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a white sailboat on deep blue water near a distant shoreline with houses and low hills. — A white sailboat moves across blue water below a distant shoreline.

1948 New York home-movie frame with a white sailboat on open blue water, backed by small boats, houses, trees, and low hills. — The sailboat passes through the right side of the harbor view.

1948 New York 8mm frame looking across blue water toward shoreline houses, moored boats, and a partly visible white sailboat. — A wider harbor view shows the shoreline as the sailboat nears the frame edge.

1948 New York home-movie frame with open blue water, distant shoreline homes, moored boats, and the sailboat nearly leaving the frame. — The white sail moves out of view while the shoreline remains in the distance.

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