New York-1948: A Windy Day Of Boating With Family And Friends On The Lake

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

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A Windy Day Of Boating With Family And Friends On The Lake — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1948: A family enjoys a sunny day boating on a lake, captured on vintage 8mm film. A man in a white shirt holds a camera while two women in white sweaters and colorful headscarves smile and embrace. The scene shifts to a small motorboat speeding across the deep blue water, leaving a white wake. The footage shows classic 1940s fashion and a relaxed, nostalgic atmosphere, with a distant shoreline and hills under a clear sky.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127561011

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 boating, lakeside family travel, or everyday outdoor recreation inserts.
Period detail: The clothing, headscarves, handheld camera, and small motorboat may show late-1940s leisure style consistent with the supplied 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the way adults smile, brace against wind, and turn toward the camera before the view shifts to a passing boat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults in white tops, colorful headscarves, a still camera, blue lake water, a small motorboat, wake, distant hills, and shoreline buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue water, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, lakeside travel cutaway, boating transition, or family-recreation insert.
Historical context: The footage documents a private leisure outing on a New York lake, with emphasis on casual dress, social posing, and recreational motorboating.
Research note: Adults are visibly identifiable, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, audible music, children, or clear private property claims are visible from these frames.
Research search match: Searches such as 1948 New York lake boating home movie, 1940s family vacation 8mm, windy lakeside outing, and vintage motorboat footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel boating or family scenes, then other 1948 New York lake footage, then broader 1940s leisure and travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame of three adults by a lake, including a man with a camera and two women in headscarves. — Adults in white tops stand near the lake as wind moves the headscarves.

1948 New York home-movie frame of adults smiling and turning in wind near a lake, with a camera partly visible. — Two women in headscarves turn toward the camera during a windy lakeside moment.

1948 New York home-movie frame of a small motorboat moving across a blue lake under clear daylight. — A small motorboat crosses the lake with a bright white wake behind it.

1948 New York home-movie frame of a small motorboat on open lake water, viewed from a distance. — The motorboat moves farther across open water, framed by the lake surface.

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