New York-1948: Red And White Boat Sails Across Water With Passengers

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

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Red And White Boat Sails Across Water With Passengers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a white motorboat with a red canopy speeding across deep blue water. Passengers in period attire enjoy a sunny day out on the water, with the boat leaving a white wake behind. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the late 1940s. The scene evokes a sense of leisure and mid-century Americana, with the boat moving steadily from left to right across the frame.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127561033

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: Useful for 1940s New York leisure, boating, travel, or mid-century recreation sequences needing brief home-movie water footage.
Period detail: The red-canopied white motorboat, passenger clothing, and 8mm color stock may show late-1940s recreational boating style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged spectator view of passengers riding across open water as the boat throws a bright wake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a white motorboat, red canopy, seated passengers, standing riders, white spray, and a left-to-right path.
Film character: The scan carries saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, and handheld framing from a home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, travel insert, transition across water, or nostalgic recreation beat.
Historical context: The footage places small-group leisure on open water within a postwar home-movie record without identifying the exact shore or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, private property, or music are indicated.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm boating footage, vintage motorboat on water, home movie passengers, and mid-century recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York water scenes, then broader vintage boating or leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York 8mm frame of a white motorboat with a red canopy moving across deep blue water with passengers visible. — A red-canopied motorboat carries passengers across open water, leaving a bright white wake.

White recreational motorboat with a red canopy continues across New York water in the 1948 home-movie clip. — The boat moves steadily across the frame with passengers clustered near the rear and under the canopy.

The 8mm frame shows a white motorboat with a red canopy and several passengers riding over blue water in New York. — A closer pass shows the boat angled across choppy water, with passengers visible near the stern and cabin.

Final frame of the 1948 New York clip shows the red-canopied white motorboat continuing across open blue water. — The boat carries on across the water, its wake spreading behind the stern and along the side.

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