Washington USA-1963: A Boat Rides The Waves Of A Beautiful Canyon Lake

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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A Boat Rides The Waves Of A Beautiful Canyon Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a boat gliding across a calm canyon lake in Washington, USA. The view is framed through a dark, rounded window, likely a car or boat window, with a purple-tinted foreground. Rocky canyon walls rise on both sides under a bright sky, with gentle waves lapping the boat's edge. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, personal travel memory. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about mid-century American recreation.

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: 124935860

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 1708 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 6.5 to dc with my father
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: hawaii,arizona,washington dc
Date: 1963 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: Washington, 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 travel footage for productions needing a brief recreational boating view through canyon scenery in Washington.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with visible clues limited to the rounded dark framing, boat edge, lake surface, and canyon walls.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a passenger-level view from a moving boat, emphasizing personal travel observation rather than arranged scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boat bow or deck edge, rippled lake water, steep rocky canyon walls, a bright sky opening, rounded dark frame edges, and blue-purple film color shift.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, handheld movement, uneven exposure, and blue-purple color drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, recreational cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century outdoor leisure.
Historical context: The footage reflects private recreational sightseeing on water in a canyon setting, without visible people, signage, buildings, or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but location identification and underlying copyright status should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Washington boating footage, canyon lake home movie, vintage boat POV, and mid-century outdoor recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel scenes, then other 1963 Washington footage, then broader vintage boating, lake, canyon, and outdoor recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Washington 8mm frame looking past a boat edge toward rippled water and steep canyon walls through dark rounded framing. — A moving boat view faces into a narrow canyon lake with rocky slopes on both sides.

1963 Washington home-movie view from a boat, showing the deck edge, lake surface, and canyon walls under a pale sky. — The boat glides across a calm canyon lake, framed by dark rounded edges.

Washington 1963 8mm frame with a passenger view over a boat deck toward rippled canyon water and dark rocky hillsides. — A low passenger viewpoint looks over the boat edge toward the canyon lake and shoreline.

1963 Washington 8mm boating view with the deck edge in the foreground and steep canyon walls enclosing the waterway. — The boat continues through the canyon, with rippled water and shadowed slopes filling the frame.

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