California USA-1961: White Boat Anchored On A Beautiful Coastline Of A Beach

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

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White Boat Anchored On A Beautiful Coastline Of A Beach — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 showing a white motorboat anchored off the California coast. The clip captures the boat's side profile with its distinctive windows and rounded hull, floating on deep purple-tinged water. A rocky shoreline and distant pier are visible in the background, with a buoy floating nearby. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel of a quiet coastal moment.

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: 120766518

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: Useful for 1960s California coastal travel, boating, leisure, or waterfront atmosphere sequences needing brief 8mm home-movie coverage of a white motorboat at anchor.
Period detail: The rounded cabin windows, long motorboat profile, and 8mm color home-movie rendering support an early-1960s recreational boating context, while the exact beach or coastline is not identified in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot observation, lingering on a moored boat from shore or another nearby vantage point rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible details include the white cabin motorboat, rectangular side windows, rounded hull, anchor rope, dark water, rocky shoreline, and glimpses of coastal background structures.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short coastal cutaway, a boating insert, or a quiet transition beat in a 1960s California travel or seaside memory sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational coastal boating as captured in home movies, with the boat and shoreline presented as casual travel scenery rather than a documented event.
Research note: People are flagged as visible in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though no clear faces are identifiable in these stills; copyright, location, vessel ownership, and property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 8mm California coast boat, vintage home movie white motorboat, 1960s beach shoreline footage, and anchored cabin boat on water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1961 California coastal material, and finally with broader 1960s boating, beach, travel, and seaside leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 California 8mm frame showing the bow and cabin side of a white motorboat at anchor on dark coastal water, with rocks behind it. — White motorboat moored near rocky coast.

Side profile of the cabin boat.

1961 California 8mm frame focused on the midsection of the white motorboat, with dark cabin windows, hull fittings, and coastal water beneath. — Boat midsection and cabin windows.

1961 California 8mm frame showing a closer side view of the white motorboat, its long row of dark cabin windows, curved trim line, and water below. — Close view of cabin windows and hull.

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