New York City New York-1976: Flag-Decorated Cabin Cruiser Among Pleasure Boats

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 · New York City, New York, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1976 · New York City · Reel b8283f8e contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

recreational boating
maritime leisure
harbor activity
American flags
waterfront travel
amateur observation

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · Near water level, looking across the harbor with a tilted horizon
Setting: outdoor · Open harbor water with pleasure craft and a distant built waterfront
Time and weather: daytime · undetermined · Hazy with a pale sky
Lighting: Soft daylight with small highlights on the water
People: 0 · No individual people are clearly distinguishable in the supplied frames.
Vehicles: white cabin cruiser · small dinghy · white motorboat · partially visible sailboat · distant pleasure craft
Objects: American flag · mast pennants · boat mast · cabin windows · stern railing · rigging
Colors: blue-gray · white · dark brown · pale gray
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The white cabin cruiser fills the central view, with its stern flag and mast pennants visible.
A second white motorboat appears behind and to the left of the cruiser.
The wider framing includes the nearby dinghy and a cropped sailboat at the right edge.
The cruiser remains central amid open water and surrounding pleasure craft.

Flag-Decorated Cabin Cruiser Among Pleasure Boats — Clip Details

New York City, circa 1976 home movie footage shows a white cabin cruiser with a dark enclosed cabin, an American flag at the stern and strings of mast pennants. A small dinghy floats beside its stern as other motorboats appear behind it. The handheld view widens and shifts across rippled harbor water, bringing part of a sailboat into the right edge. A low waterfront stretches across the hazy background.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800003824

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1976 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: New York City, New York, United States 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: Supports documentary requests for New York Harbor pleasure craft and recreational waterfront activity circa 1976.
Period detail: The white hull, dark enclosed cabin, stern-mounted American flag and mast pennants provide visible boat-design and leisure details consistent with the estimated period.
Home-movie behavior: The low viewpoint, wandering framing and sloping horizon convey an amateur observer watching nearby craft during a harbor outing.
What appears in frame: The view contains a white cabin cruiser, dark cabin windows, an American flag, mast pennants, a small dinghy, neighboring boats and a distant waterfront.
Film character: Grain, muted blue-gray color, soft focus, vertical scratches and dust give the projected-film capture a pronounced archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a harbor activity cutaway or a transition between skyline views and the reel's larger sailing vessels.
Historical context: The decorated pleasure craft fits the wider reel's spectator-fleet setting, but this shot alone does not identify a particular celebration.
Research note: Private pleasure craft are visible without readable names or identifiable faces; film copyright licensing is separate from any applicable likeness or property permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for New York Harbor home movies circa 1976, flag-decorated cabin cruisers and small-gauge recreational boating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's Goodyear blimp, tall ship, four-masted schooner and furled-sail schooner, then with New York Harbor footage circa 1976 and other boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A flag-decorated white cabin cruiser and nearby dinghy on New York Harbor, circa 1976, with rippled water and a hazy waterfront behind. — The cruiser is shown at its largest scale, with the stern flag, dark cabin and nearby dinghy visible.
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A white cruiser with mast pennants sits among pleasure craft in New York Harbor, circa 1976, with a dinghy close to its stern. — Another white motorboat appears behind the flagged cruiser as the harbor view opens out.
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Pleasure boats on New York Harbor, circa 1976, with a flagged cruiser left of center and a cropped sailboat mast at the right edge. — The wider composition places the cruiser between a motorboat and a partially cropped sailboat.
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The cabin cruiser remains central in a wide New York Harbor view, circa 1976, bordered by a motorboat and a cropped sailboat. — The closing view retains the cruiser, surrounding pleasure craft and hazy waterfront.
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