Dade County Florida-1955: White Boat Gliding Across Florida Lake

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationDade, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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White Boat Gliding Across Florida Lake — Clip Details

DADE COUNTY FLORIDA-1955: A white, vintage-style boat glides across calm water, its rounded hull and passenger windows visible as it moves past a lush, tree-lined shore. The scene captures a tranquil moment on a Florida lake, with palm trees and a large house in the background. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays characteristic grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American leisure scene. The camera remains steady, observing the boat's journey from a fixed viewpoint.

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: 123382084

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 1573 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1955 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: Dade, Florida, 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 1950s Florida leisure, inland water transport, or mid-century vacation cutaways in documentary, education, museum, or editorial projects.
Period detail: The rounded white excursion boat, palm-lined shoreline, dock, and large waterfront house may show mid-century leisure scenery in Dade County, Florida.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed home-movie viewpoint watches the boat pass, preserving an unstaged visitor perspective on waterfront activity and scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white passenger boat, calm dark water, palm trees, a dock, shoreline houses, window rows, and soft wooded background.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, dark edge falloff, and contact-sheet framing that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century Florida sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows recreational or local water travel along a landscaped Florida shoreline without enough detail to identify the vessel, property, or event.
Research note: People may be visible at small scale, and copyright clearance is separate from any likeness or property review for identifiable subjects or locations.
Research search match: Searches for 1950s Dade County Florida 8mm boat footage, vintage Florida lake excursion boat, or Miami-area palm shoreline home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County waterfront material, then broader Florida boats, lakes, and leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A white passenger boat passes across calm water near palm trees and waterfront houses in 1955 Dade County, Florida footage. — White boat gliding past a tree-lined Florida shoreline.

The boat moves farther across the frame, with a dock, palms, and large waterfront houses visible on the Dade County shoreline. — Passenger boat crossing in front of palms and waterfront homes.

The passing boat fills the lower frame while a palm-lined waterfront and house remain visible in the 1955 Florida home-movie shot. — Boat passing close to the camera with shoreline houses beyond.

A closer view shows the white boat's rounded rear section and windows as it continues past the Dade County shoreline. — Rounded rear section of the white boat moving across the water.

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