New York-1948: Small Motorboat and Large Waterfront Building

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

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Small Motorboat and Large Waterfront Building — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1948 captures a small white motorboat with a red canopy speeding across blue water, leaving a white wake. Three people are aboard, including a driver at the helm. The scene transitions to a view from a moving vessel, showing a large, elegant waterfront building with numerous windows and a long glass-enclosed section along the shore. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic 1940s aesthetic, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 127561060

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 waterfront requests needing authentic home-movie views of small-boat travel and shoreline architecture.
Period detail: The clothing and vessel design are not clear, but the color 8mm look and metadata support a late-1940s waterfront scene in New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, first following a passing motorboat and then filming a large waterfront building from a moving vessel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a white motorboat with a red canopy, people aboard, wake, railings, and a large multi-story waterfront building.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, color drift, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s New York sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places leisure boating and waterfront observation alongside a substantial urban shoreline building without confirming its identity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm waterfront footage, small motorboat on blue water, vintage vessel POV, and large waterfront building home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel waterfront material, then with other 1948 New York clips, then with vintage boating, harbor travel, or urban shoreline themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing a small white motorboat with a red canopy crossing blue water with people aboard. — A small motorboat moves quickly across open blue water, leaving a white wake behind it.

1948 New York waterfront view from a moving vessel, showing a large light-colored building along the shore. — A large waterfront building with rows of windows appears beyond the water and foreground rail.

1948 New York frame showing a large shorefront building and glass-enclosed section from a vessel perspective. — The camera looks across the water toward a broad waterfront structure with a long glass-fronted section.

1948 New York home-movie frame of a large waterfront building seen past a boat rail and blue water. — A steady view frames the waterfront building across the water, with vessel details visible at the edge.

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