Niagra Falls New York-1964: Two Persons Riding In A Boat On A Lake

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationNiagra Falls, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Two Persons Riding In A Boat On A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures two people in a small rowboat gliding across a calm lake. The individuals, wearing bright yellow shirts, paddle steadily through the water, leaving a gentle wake. In the background, a white house sits on a grassy shore surrounded by dense trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color grading with a blue-purple tint, and visible grain. The scene evokes a peaceful, nostalgic summer day, perfect for archival or retro-themed projects.

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: 123995557

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: Niagra Falls, New York, 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: 1960s 8mm home-movie lake footage for documentary inserts, family-memory sequences, regional travel context, or quiet recreational cutaways.
Period detail: The small rowboat, bright casual shirts, wooded shoreline, and soft 8mm color may show mid-1960s leisure filming near Niagara Falls, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of two people rowing steadily across open water while the camera watches from shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small rowboat, two people in yellow tops, rippled lake water, a distant white house, wooded shoreline, wake trails, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that read as physical 8mm texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a tranquil insert, transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for outdoor recreation and family travel material.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal leisure filming of boating on a lake, with the shore and house providing residential context without identifying the property.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and a house appears in the background, so likeness and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm lake boating, Niagara Falls New York home movie, two people in rowboat, vintage family travel lake footage, and wooded shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Niagara Falls or 1964 regional footage, then with broader 1960s boating, lakeside recreation, and family travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm home-movie frame near Niagara Falls, New York, showing two people in yellow tops rowing across a lake below a wooded shoreline. — Two people row across the lake, with a distant house and trees on the far shore.

1964 8mm frame from Niagara Falls, New York, with two distant boaters on a lake and a pale house set back on the wooded bank. — The rowboat continues across open water, leaving a narrow wake behind it.

Home-movie frame from the 1964 Niagara Falls, New York clip, showing the rowboat smaller in the lake with trees and shoreline behind it. — The boat recedes across the lake as the shore and house remain in the background.

1964 8mm Niagara Falls, New York frame showing two distant people in a small rowboat on a lake with wooded shore and a house beyond. — The rowboat sits near mid-frame on rippled water, backed by a wooded shoreline.

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