Sacramento California USA-1966: Lakeside Dock And Blue Water View

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 California

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Lakeside Dock And Blue Water View — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Sacramento, California, 1966, showing a lakeside dock with a covered structure and a person sitting on the edge. The scene transitions to a wide view of a blue lake with a distant shoreline, trees, and a small boat. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and dark vignetting, capturing a nostalgic, quiet moment of early 1960s Americana. The footage is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121300899

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 1106 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,vacation
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: danville,illinois,california
Date: 1966 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: Sacramento, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Sacramento-area home-movie lake footage for documentary cutaways, regional water recreation context, or quiet Americana memory beats.
Period detail: The covered dock, small shoreline structures, soft color reversal palette, and casual lakeside filming may show mid-1960s leisure infrastructure around Sacramento.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a person seated on a dock before drifting to a wide, handheld view across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a covered dock, seated person, tree shade, blue lake water, distant shoreline, low buildings, and small boats.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, dark edge vignetting, slight softness, color shifts, and handheld framing that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, reflective transition, lakeside cutaway, or memory beat between family or regional travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents everyday waterside recreation and landscape observation without supporting claims about a named lake, event, or landmark.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, location, and any property rights should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Sacramento lake view, vintage home movie dock, blue water shoreline, and California waterside recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1966 footage, then broader 1960s California water and dock scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Sacramento-area 8mm frame showing a shaded covered dock beside blue water, partly obscured by trees and heavy vignetting. — Covered dock glimpsed through trees at the water's edge.

1966 Sacramento-area home-movie frame with a distant person seated on a covered dock above dark lake water. — A person sits at the edge of the covered dock.

1966 Sacramento-area 8mm frame looking across blue lake water toward a distant tree-lined shoreline and small boats. — Wide view across the lake toward a distant shoreline.

1966 Sacramento-area home-movie frame showing open blue water, distant trees, low shoreline structures, and small boats. — Open water and distant shoreline close the short lake view.

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