Michigan USA-1961: People Enjoying On The Sailing Yacht

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Michigan

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People Enjoying On The Sailing Yacht — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 showing a white motor yacht on a lake in Michigan. The boat, featuring a classic design with wood trim and a cabin, floats on calm water with a dense treeline in the background. Several people are visible on deck, including a man in swim trunks raising his arm in a wave. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and dark borders typical of Super 8 footage, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-century leisure and family vacation.

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: 121077111

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 2015 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,linda communion,,d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1961-1962
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan,
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: Michigan, 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 U.S. leisure, boating, vacation, and family home-movie requests needing a brief lake-yacht insert with visible people on deck.
Period detail: The cabin cruiser’s wood trim, white hull, and casual swimwear may show early-1960s recreational boating style supported by the 1961 Michigan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged vacation moment, with people relaxing on deck and one person raising an arm toward the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motor yacht, cabin windows, wood trim, people on deck, calm lake water, dense treeline, cloudy sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight weave, and dark contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century vacation, lake life, boating, or family leisure sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects private recreational lake activity in Michigan without making claims about a named marina, boat model, or specific waterway.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from personal or property rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Michigan 8mm lake boating, vintage home movie yacht, 1960s family vacation on water, and mid-century motor cruiser footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel boating or lake scenes, then with 1961 Michigan footage, then with broader 1960s vacation and leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan home-movie frame showing a white motor yacht with wood trim, people on deck, calm water, and a wooded shoreline. — White cabin cruiser passes close to the camera on a wooded Michigan lake.

1961 Michigan 8mm frame of a white cabin cruiser on a lake, with a person raising an arm and others seated near the stern. — A person waves from the deck of a white motor yacht on calm water.

Home-movie frame from 1961 Michigan showing the side of a white yacht, visible passengers, wooded shore, and overcast sky. — The yacht drifts across the frame with passengers visible near the cabin and stern.

1961 Michigan home-movie frame focusing on the bow and cabin of a white motor yacht, with people partly visible on deck. — The bow of the cabin cruiser fills the frame as it sits on rippled lake water.

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