New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: A Very Spooky Deliverance Boat Ride On A Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Orleans Louisiana

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A Very Spooky Deliverance Boat Ride On A Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana, capturing a hauntingly atmospheric boat ride through a swampy lake. The clip opens on a dense, eerie forest of dead, leafless trees rising from still water, their reflections creating a ghostly mirror image. As the camera moves forward, a small boat appears, navigating the narrow waterway. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and natural light, evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia. The scene strongly resembles the iconic setting of the 1972 film Deliverance, making it ideal for historical, documentary, or editorial content about Southern Americana.

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: 120978599

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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 Orleans, Louisiana, 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: 1958 New Orleans-area home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for Southern wetland travel, eerie swamp scenery, or midcentury leisure boat-route inserts.
Period detail: The small motorboats, simple covered dock, and 8mm color handling may show a late-1950s recreational waterway scene, with the year and location supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming from a moving boat, watching dead trees, still water, and moored boats pass without posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafless swamp trees, reflective water, a wooded shoreline, moored boats, a low dock or shelter, soft sky, and dark film-gate borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, mild blur, faded color, exposure fluctuation, and handheld motion that give the scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a moody cutaway, regional establishing insert, travel transition, or memory beat before a broader sequence on Louisiana wetlands or boat travel.
Historical context: The view records a midcentury visitor perspective on a swampy lake or bayou environment, emphasizing water access, dead timber, and small recreational craft.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 New Orleans 8mm swamp boat ride, Louisiana bayou home movie, dead trees in lake, and midcentury Southern waterway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New Orleans or Louisiana waterway scenes, then broader swamp, lake, boat, and Southern travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Orleans-area 8mm frame showing dead swamp trees rising from reflective water during a boat ride. — Dead trees line a quiet swampy waterway as the camera looks ahead from the moving boat.

1958 New Orleans-area swamp water view with a dense stand of bare trees reflected in the lake. — A dense band of bare trees reflects in the calm water along the shoreline.

1958 New Orleans-area 8mm view of small boats tied near a low dock along a swampy shoreline. — Small boats sit near a simple waterside dock, with dead trees and brush behind them.

1958 New Orleans-area home-movie frame showing moored boats and a dock along a wooded swamp bank. — Moored boats and a low dock pass in view along the wooded edge of the waterway.

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