California USA-1961: Women Traveling On A Boat

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Women Traveling On A Boat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, 1961, showing a boat journey on a calm body of water. The clip opens with a purple-tinted view of rippling water, then reveals a shoreline with houses and boats in the distance. The final frames show silhouetted passengers aboard the boat, including women wearing headscarves and period clothing, seated in dim, blue-lit conditions. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-century travel and leisure. This authentic archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, and nostalgic 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120766495

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 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: California, 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: This 1961 California 8mm home-movie clip can support documentary or editorial requests for mid-century leisure travel, small-boat passenger views, and waterfront memory material.
Period detail: The visible headscarves, dark sunglasses, modest casual clothing, and soft 8mm color response may show early-1960s vacation or day-trip style without identifying a specific shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in its shift from passenger-point-of-view water and shoreline views to dim silhouettes of seated travelers aboard the boat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling water, distant houses, moored boats, a low shoreline, boat-window framing, seated passengers, headscarves, and silhouetted faces.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, low exposure, soft focus, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, waterfront transition, boat-ride cutaway, or subjective memory beat between broader California or vacation scenes.
Historical context: The material visually places leisure travel on the water within a mid-century home-movie context, with women passengers recorded from inside or near the covered area of a boat.
Research note: People are visible in silhouette and may require likeness review, while no readable brands or logos are visible and copyright, likeness, and any property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1961 California 8mm boat trip, early 1960s home movie women on boat, vintage waterfront travel footage, and mid-century passenger boat interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1961 waterfront or travel footage, then broader 1960s home-movie leisure and transportation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 California home-movie frame showing rippling water from a boat with a distant shoreline, houses, and moored small boats under heavy purple-blue color shift. — Waterfront seen from the boat.

A soft 8mm view across dark blue water toward a California shoreline with houses, trees, and several small boats visible in the distance. — Shoreline and boats across the water.

Dim interior or covered-boat view with silhouetted passengers, including headscarved figures, seated beside windows as water passes outside. — Passengers seated aboard the boat.

Low-light 8mm frame of passengers seated aboard the boat, including a person in dark glasses and headscarved figures, with bright water visible through the window openings. — Silhouetted travelers inside the boat.

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