Niagra Falls New York-1964: People Rowing A Boat On The Lake

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

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People Rowing A Boat On The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a person in a yellow shirt rowing a small boat across a calm lake. The scene unfolds under a soft, overcast sky, with dense green trees lining the far shore and a small white structure visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, conveying a quiet, nostalgic summer day. The camera remains stationary, observing the solitary figure gliding across the water, evoking a sense of peaceful solitude and mid-century Americana.

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: 123995589

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 boating footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing quiet recreation near Niagara Falls, New York.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s leisure through a small rowboat, simple casual clothing, and an undeveloped wooded lakeshore rather than identifiable modern infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged observer's view of a person rowing steadily across open water, filmed from shore with a patient home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small rowboat, one person in a yellow top, extended oars, rippled lake water, a wooded far shore, and a small pale structure in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks, and slight blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, travel-memory insert, recreational transition, or reflective beat between broader 1960s family or destination scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places outdoor leisure in a quiet lakeside setting, with the person and boat small against water and trees rather than staged for the camera.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, audible music, or clear private property are apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 8mm lake rowboat, Niagara Falls New York home movie, 1960s boating recreation, and vintage family travel lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Niagara Falls New York material, then broader 1960s lake recreation or travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm home-movie frame from Niagara Falls, New York, showing a distant person in yellow rowing on a calm lake. — A small rowboat moves across the lake with the wooded shoreline behind it.

Distant rowboat on a lake near Niagara Falls, New York, with one visible person and dense green trees beyond the water. — The rower remains centered against the open lake and dark green shoreline.

1960s 8mm frame showing a person in yellow rowing a small boat across lake water with wooded shoreline in the background. — The boat appears low on the water as the rower pulls across the frame.

Final 1964 home-movie frame of the distant rower on a lake, with oars visible and trees lining the far shore. — The rowboat drifts farther across the lake as the shot holds from shore.

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