Bermuda-1948: White-Sailed Sloop Gliding Past a Mooring Buoy in a Blue Harbour

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationBermuda
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · Bermuda

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What is in this clip

sailing
leisure travel
island holiday
harbour life
sea voyage
postwar tourism

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · high angle, likely from a ship's deck
Setting: outdoor · harbour with a wooded shoreline, moored boats and houses
Time and weather: daytime · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright natural daylight
People: 3 · Two or three small, distant figures seated in the yacht's cockpit; no faces can be made out.
Vehicles: sailing sloop · moored sailboats · small motorboat
Objects: mooring buoy · mooring line · sails · mast · small anchored boat · landing stage
Colors: deep blue · white · cream · dark green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The sloop sails mid-frame with the mooring buoy at lower right and the shore behind.
The yacht's reflection trails on the rippled blue water as it holds its course.
Figures in the cockpit are visible as the camera keeps the boat centred.
The yacht is still under full sail as the shot ends.

White-Sailed Sloop Gliding Past a Mooring Buoy in a Blue... — Clip Details

Bermuda, circa 1948 home movie footage. A white-hulled sloop with a tall triangular mainsail and a jib glides across deep blue harbour water, with two or three small figures seated in its cockpit. In the foreground a banded cylindrical mooring buoy floats on a dark line, and a small boat lies at anchor further out. The far shore shows trees, moored masts and houses with white roofs. The single shot is taken from a high vantage, likely a ship's deck, with slight handheld drift.

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: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000104

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Bermuda Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip answers requests for late-1940s leisure sailing or Bermuda holiday imagery in documentaries, travel histories and heritage exhibits.
Period detail: The classic white-hulled sloop and the distant white-roofed houses may show a circa 1948 Bermuda harbour, though no object in the frame dates it on its own.
Home-movie behavior: A passenger filming from the ship's rail follows a passing yacht out of plain curiosity, giving a visitor's unstaged view of the harbour.
What appears in frame: A white sloop under main and jib, a banded mooring buoy on a dark line, a small anchored boat, moored masts along the shore, and houses with white roofs among trees.
Film character: Colour 8mm grain, a strong cobalt-blue rendering of the water, cream highlights in the sails and gentle handheld drift give the shot an authentic projected-film texture.
Edit role: It works as an establishing shot for a harbour arrival, a calm cutaway in a travel sequence or a transition between ship and shore scenes.
Historical context: Bermuda's whitewashed stepped roofs collect rainwater because the island has no fresh surface water, and New York–Bermuda passenger service ran from 1919.
Research note: The film's copyright sits with the archive, while the small figures aboard cannot be identified and the private yacht and shoreline homes are not cleared as property, so check these for any featured use.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1940s sailboat in Bermuda, vintage yacht under sail, 8mm colour harbour footage or postwar island holiday home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's steam tender, speedboat, friends at the ship's rail and palm-lined beach clips, then with other late-1940s Bermuda footage, then with vintage sailing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Sloop under white main and jib in a Bermuda harbour, circa 1948, with a mooring buoy and white-roofed houses on the far shore — A sloop under full sail crosses the harbour, seen from a ship's deck, Bermuda, circa 1948.
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Classic white-hulled sloop reflected on rippled blue harbour water in Bermuda, circa 1948, moored masts along the shore — The yacht's reflection trails across the rippled harbour surface.
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Crew seated aboard a white sloop sailing past a banded mooring buoy in a Bermuda harbour, circa 1948 colour home movie — Two or three people sit in the cockpit as the sloop sails past a mooring buoy.
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Late-1940s 8mm view of a sloop holding course across a Bermuda harbour, white-roofed buildings on the wooded shore — The sloop holds its course across the harbour near the end of the shot.
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