California USA-1961: A Speed Boat Ride in Purple Light

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

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A Speed Boat Ride in Purple Light — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, 1961, showing silhouetted passengers aboard a speed boat under intense purple lighting. The grainy, low-light scenes capture a family or group enjoying a nighttime ride, with visible film grain and color distortion typical of Super 8 film. The final frame reveals the boat docked at a calm waterfront, with a rocky shoreline in the background, preserving a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of mid-century American leisure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120766504

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 clip helps answer archival requests for mid-century American leisure, boating, and home-movie material that can support documentary or memory-sequence edits.
Period detail: The footage may show early-1960s recreational boating through the speed boat setting, formal-looking passenger clothing, strong color shift, and handheld 8mm home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged presence of passengers sitting close together during a boat ride, with the camera recording silhouettes and brief dockside context rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include silhouetted adult passengers, a boat canopy or cabin structure, purple-blue water reflections, dark interior seating, a moored white boat, calm water, and a rocky shoreline.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, low-light exposure, heavy purple color cast, soft focus, and handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transitional memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway for boating, vacation, California waterfront, or 1960s family-leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects private recreational travel and waterside leisure in a home-movie context without enough visible detail to identify a specific marina, lake, harbor, or event.
Research note: People are visible in silhouette, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are evident from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1961 California 8mm speed boat ride, purple-tinted home movie passengers on boat, vintage waterfront leisure footage, and mid-century family boating cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other material from the same reel, then with California 1961 waterfront or boating footage, and finally with broader 1960s vacation, leisure, and home-movie travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Silhouetted passengers sit inside a boat during a 1961 California home-movie scene, with intense purple-blue light and water reflections behind them. — Passengers silhouetted during the boat ride.

Two adult passengers appear in silhouette inside the boat, backed by bright purple-blue reflected light in this 1961 California 8mm frame. — Passengers framed against bright water reflections.

Several passengers are partly visible in a dim boat interior, with purple-blue light and soft 8mm grain obscuring facial detail. — Dim interior view of passengers on the boat.

A white boat sits on calm water near a rocky shoreline, providing dockside or waterfront context for the 1961 California home-movie clip. — Boat and rocky shoreline at the waterfront.

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