Greenwood Lake New York-1964: Ducks and Couple in Paddle Boat on Lake

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationGreenwood Lake, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Ducks and Couple in Paddle Boat on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a serene day at Greenwood Lake, New York. The clip opens with a family of ducks swimming calmly across the water, their reflections rippling in the sunlit pond. The scene transitions to a couple enjoying a paddle boat ride, the man shirtless in swim trunks and the woman in a floral dress, both smiling as they glide past a wooden dock. In the background, two adults relax under a yellow umbrella on a grassy shore. The footage features classic Super 8 color grading, visible film grain, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched atmosphere, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage nostalgia projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124937795

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1062 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: greenwood lake summer
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: greenwood lake
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: Greenwood Lake, 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 footage for edits needing lakeside recreation, ducks on water, and adults boating in a casual summer setting.
Period detail: The paddle boat, metal lawn chairs, floral dress, swimwear, and yellow shore umbrella support a mid-1960s leisure setting consistent with the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged vacation perspective: ducks drift across the water before adults casually pedal past a dock while shore visitors sit nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ducks on rippled water, vertical posts, a dock edge, a paddle boat, seated adults, lawn chairs, a table, and a yellow umbrella.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat between broader summer lake, family vacation, or 1960s recreation scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday warm-weather leisure at Greenwood Lake, showing boating, waterside seating, and casual dress without a staged public-event context.
Research note: People are visible, including recognizable adult faces in some frames, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Greenwood Lake home movie, 8mm ducks on lake, vintage paddle boat footage, and adults boating by dock.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake footage, then other 1964 Greenwood Lake material, then broader 1960s summer recreation or waterfowl cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Ducks move across the water at Greenwood Lake in 1964 home-movie footage, with posts and film gate edges visible. — Ducks swim across rippled lake water near upright posts.

A small group of ducks clusters on Greenwood Lake water in the 1964 8mm home-movie sequence. — Ducks gather and move across the lake surface.

Two adults ride a paddle boat near a dock at Greenwood Lake, with other adults seated under a yellow umbrella on shore. — Adults pedal a small boat past the dock while others sit by the water.

A shirtless man and a woman in a floral dress sit in a paddle boat near the Greenwood Lake dock in 1964 footage. — The paddle boat passes close to the dock with two adults aboard.

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