New York-1948: Sailing Day With Family On The Water

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

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Sailing Day With Family On The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day on the water in New York. Sailboats glide across calm blue waters, their white sails billowing in the breeze, with a distant shoreline dotted with houses. The footage shows a family enjoying the day, including a man in a white shirt and two women in light sweaters, one wearing a patterned headscarf. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American leisure moment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127560977

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: Useful for 1940s New York home-movie requests needing leisure sailing, waterfront recreation, or family travel cutaways for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The 1948 metadata, 8mm color look, simple leisure clothing, compact still camera, headscarves, and small sailboats support a mid-century waterfront setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value in its casual framing of sailboats followed by family members turning toward the camera on a sunny day by the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, white sailboats, a low residential shoreline, rocky points, a man with a camera, two women in light sweaters, and patterned headscarves.
Film character: The 8mm image shows soft focus, saturated blues, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical character of the original film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief waterfront insert, travel-memory transition, family leisure cutaway, or period mood beat between broader New York or vacation sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects postwar-era recreational boating and family sightseeing from a private home-movie viewpoint, without identifying a specific harbor or event.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm sailing footage, vintage family waterfront home movie, mid-century sailboats, and 1940s leisure travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York waterfront footage, then broader mid-century sailing, vacation, and family-outing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame of a sailboat on blue water with houses along the far shoreline. — A sailboat moves across calm water below a distant shoreline of houses.

A small sailboat moves across open water in the 1948 New York waterfront home movie. — A sailboat passes near a rocky point with houses visible in the distance.

1948 New York 8mm frame showing a sailboat below a residential shoreline across the water. — A sailboat sits low in the frame beneath the far residential shoreline.

Family members stand by the New York waterfront in 1948, including a man with a camera and two women in headscarves. — A man with a camera and two women face the camera beside the water.

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