New York-1948: Ship Battling Rough Ocean Waves

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

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Ship Battling Rough Ocean Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a ship battling rough seas off the coast of New York. The view from the deck shows turbulent waves crashing against the hull, with rigging and masts silhouetted against a stormy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, conveying the intensity of a maritime struggle. This archival clip offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse into mid-century ocean travel and the power of nature.

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: 127561344

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: 1940s 8mm maritime footage for documentary or educational sequences needing rough ocean travel seen from aboard a vessel near New York.
Period detail: The frames show a mid-century home-movie deck viewpoint with ship rigging, rail elements, and open water, with the 1948 New York setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld deck perspective records rough seas as an observer might film from a ship during travel, without staged action or visible passengers.
What appears in frame: Visible details include choppy ocean swells, whitecaps, ship rigging, mast-like poles, deck-edge structures, horizon line, and dark frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, color fading toward blue-purple tones, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel insert, weather transition, or tense memory beat within a mid-century ocean journey sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates ocean travel in a small-gauge home-movie record, emphasizing weather and shipboard viewpoint rather than identifiable port activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and any broader vessel or location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1948 8mm rough seas, New York ocean travel home movie, ship deck whitecaps, vintage maritime footage, and stormy ocean cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 New York maritime material, then broader rough sea and shipboard travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm shipboard view near New York showing rough ocean water, whitecaps, and rigging silhouetted in the foreground. — Rough seas and whitecaps are filmed from a deck through ship rigging.

Shipboard 8mm view of rough seas near New York, with whitecaps beyond crisscrossing rigging and vertical film-frame edges. — Rigging cuts across the view as the camera faces a wind-ruffled ocean horizon.

Soft 1948 8mm frame from a ship near New York, showing rigging in the foreground and rough ocean water beyond. — A handheld deck view shows rigging against a choppy sea surface.

1948 8mm view near New York focused on rolling ocean swells and whitecaps, framed by dark film edges. — The camera looks outward to open water as waves and whitecaps fill the frame.

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