New York-1948: Ship Sailing on Rough Seas from Deck

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

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Ship Sailing on Rough Seas from Deck — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a ship navigating rough seas from the deck. The view shows the bow cutting through turbulent blue waves under an overcast sky, with rigging and railings framing the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, conveying the motion and atmosphere of a mid-century ocean voyage. This archival clip offers authentic maritime footage for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

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: 127561247

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 maritime or ocean-travel sequences needing authentic 8mm deck-view footage of a ship moving through rough seas.
Period detail: The visible deck railings, rigging, bow shape, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century passenger or working-vessel travel, supported by the 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears handheld from a passenger or crew deck position, giving an unstaged view of weather, motion, and sea conditions during a voyage.
What appears in frame: The frames show the ship bow, deck railings, rigging lines, masts or antennae, dark ocean swells, pale sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, color fading, exposure variation, and gate edges give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, voyage transition, atmospheric insert, or memory beat before or after shipboard scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents ocean travel from the deck, emphasizing rough water and ship structure without identifying a specific vessel or route.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible in the sampled frames, but vessel identity, copyright status, and location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers may find it through searches for 1948 8mm ship deck view, rough seas home movie, vintage ocean voyage, or mid-century maritime footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other New York or 1948 travel material, then broader vintage ship and rough-sea sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm deck view showing the ship bow, railings, and rigging against rough blue sea and pale sky. — Ship bow and rigging frame rough ocean swells from a deck viewpoint.

1948 8mm frame from a ship deck, with railings, angled rigging, and rough seas under an overcast sky. — Deck rigging crosses the view as the ship moves through rough water.

1948 8mm deck perspective with bow railings, rigging, and choppy open water filling the horizon. — The bow points into choppy seas, framed by rigging and railings.

1948 8mm frame showing ship rigging and mast lines above rough blue sea, with the bow partly visible at the lower edge. — Rigging lines and a partial bow view sit against a rough ocean horizon.

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