New York-1948: Sailboats off Coastal Town

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

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Sailboats off Coastal Town — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1948: White sailboats glide across calm waters near a coastal town, their sails full in the breeze. The scene captures a serene day of sailing with a shoreline dotted with white buildings in the background. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural grain and a slightly faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies. The final frames transition to a wide view of the open ocean, with gentle waves under an overcast sky, evoking a sense of peaceful recreation and maritime leisure from the late 1940s.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127561107

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 editorial sequences needing New York coastal sailing, recreational boating, or open-ocean home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The small white sailboats, soft color, and distant low shoreline may show a mid-century leisure scene consistent with the 1948 8mm metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a moving or shore-adjacent vantage, favoring casual views of boats and water rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white sailboats, blue-green coastal water, a distant town shoreline, open ocean, low horizon, waves, film borders, and dust marks.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, faded color, mild softness, uneven exposure, and gate edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, leisure insert, coastal transition, or quiet memory beat between travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational sailing and ocean views in a coastal New York setting without showing identifiable people or named landmarks.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York sailing footage, 8mm home movie sailboats, coastal recreation, vintage ocean waves, and mid-century boating.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1948 New York coastal footage, then broader 1940s sailing, ocean, and recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

White sailboats move across coastal water in New York, with a low shoreline and pale buildings in the distance. — Sailboats pass near a distant coastal town.

Open ocean fills the frame, with low rolling waves beneath a pale sky in the 1948 New York home-movie clip. — A wide view of ocean water and horizon.

Rolling ocean water stretches toward a faint horizon, with visible 8mm grain and small dust specks. — The camera holds on the moving ocean surface.

Open ocean and small wave crests fill the frame, continuing the coastal New York sailing sequence. — Small waves move across the open water.

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