Washington USA-1963: A Boat Glides Over Smooth Waters Toward Green Hilly Terrain

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Boat Glides Over Smooth Waters Toward Green Hilly Terrain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a boat gliding smoothly over calm waters, viewed from a moving vehicle. The scene features a winding road along a riverbank, with lush green hills rising in the background. The footage exhibits a distinct blue color cast and grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 film, with a steady, forward-moving perspective. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet travel and mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

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: 124935890

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Washington travel footage suited to documentary cutaways, regional history sequences, or period road-and-water landscape inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century roadside or vessel-side view of water, a curving bank, and wooded hills, with no visible cars, signs, buildings, or people to date the scene visually.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds an unstaged moving viewpoint, suggesting a traveler filming scenery from a boat or vehicle rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled water, a sloping shoreline, a curving paved or hard-edged bank, wooded hills, grass, dark frame borders, and strong blue cast.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, grain, blue color shift, gate borders, and slight motion blur that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, travel insert, landscape cutaway, or reflective memory beat between more identifiable Washington scenes.
Historical context: The scene records leisure or travel observation of a Washington waterside landscape without showing identifiable communities, infrastructure, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but location identification and any underlying copyright or access permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1963 Washington 8mm waterside travel, vintage home movie riverbank hills, blue cast 8mm landscape, and 1960s scenic boat view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1963 Washington outdoor scenes, then broader 1960s home-movie travel landscapes with water and hills.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Washington 8mm frame showing rippled water beside a curving bank and dark green hills, with heavy blue color cast. — A moving view follows water along a curved shore beneath wooded hills.

Blue-shifted 8mm view of water passing a curved embankment with wooded hillside terrain in the background. — The shoreline sweeps diagonally through the frame as the camera moves past the water.

1963 Washington home-movie frame with rippled water, a diagonal shoreline edge, and shadowed hillside greenery. — Water fills the lower frame while the shore and hills drift past in the distance.

Soft 8mm frame of a Washington waterside landscape, showing blue-tinted water, a curved bank, and wooded hills. — The final frame keeps the same moving waterside view with hills behind the curved bank.

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