Washington DC-1975: A Motorboat Speeds Across the Water at Dusk

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Motorboat Speeds Across the Water at Dusk — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1975 captures a serene waterfront scene, likely in Washington DC. The footage, shot during twilight, features a deep blue color cast and soft focus, with a small motorboat speeding across the water, leaving a white wake. In the background, a shoreline with buildings, trees, and a prominent domed structure is visible. The clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a summer evening, with the grainy texture and color saturation characteristic of Super 8 film.

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: 123206176

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: 1975 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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

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 1970s Washington, DC waterfront atmosphere in documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing brief home-movie river traffic.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1975 visitor view of a Washington, DC shoreline with low buildings, trees, a distant spire, and a domed waterfront structure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, watching a small motorboat cross the water from a distant shoreline vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a moving motorboat, white wake, shoreline buildings, trees, distant spires, a domed structure, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has saturated blue-purple 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight gate framing, and handheld drift that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short waterfront insert, travel transition, dusk cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1970s Washington, DC sequence.
Historical context: The clip places leisure boat traffic against an urban waterfront, offering visual context for a mid-1970s visit without asserting a specific event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, location, copyright, and property-identification questions still need normal review.
Research search match: Searchers might find this under 1975 8mm Washington DC waterfront, home movie motorboat on river, blue dusk shoreline, or vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Washington, DC material, then broader 1970s waterfront and travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 8mm view likely in Washington, DC, showing a distant shoreline with buildings and trees across blue water. — A soft-focus shoreline sits across the water in the opening frame.

Likely Washington, DC waterfront in 1975, with low shoreline buildings and trees seen across the water in blue-purple light. — The camera holds on shoreline buildings beyond the water.

A small motorboat moves across blue water near a likely Washington, DC shoreline, with buildings and trees behind it. — A motorboat enters the waterfront view, cutting a white wake across the water.

Likely 1975 Washington, DC footage of a motorboat crossing the water before a domed shoreline structure and trees. — The motorboat passes in front of a domed waterfront building near the end of the clip.

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