Greenwood Lake New York-1964: Mother Duck and Ducklings at Dock

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

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Mother Duck and Ducklings at Dock — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a serene scene at Greenwood Lake, New York. A mother duck leads her ducklings in a line across the calm water, their reflections rippling beneath. In the background, small boats are moored at a wooden dock, with a tire bumper visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a blue-purple tint and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American lakeside memory.

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: 124937815

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 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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing quiet lakeside wildlife and recreational dock atmosphere from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The small motorboats, wooden dock edge, tire bumper, and color 8mm home-movie stock support a mid-1960s lakeside setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes ducks moving across the water from a casual shore or dock position, giving the clip an unstaged family-vacation viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mother duck with ducklings, rippled lake water, moored small boats, a wooden dock, tire bumpers, shoreline grass, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows blue-purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing consistent with aged 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a gentle insert, nature cutaway, location transition, or memory beat within a 1960s lake or family-travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational lake use and casual wildlife observation at Greenwood Lake, with boats and dock details framing the ducks as everyday shoreline life.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 8mm Greenwood Lake footage, ducks with ducklings at a dock, vintage New York lake home movie, and 1960s lakeside wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Greenwood Lake material from 1964, then broader 1960s lake recreation or home-movie wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

At Greenwood Lake in 1964, a duck and ducklings move across blue-toned water below moored boats and a dock edge. — Ducklings follow across the lake water with small boats tied along the dock behind them.

A duck family crosses the water at Greenwood Lake, with a small docked boat and shoreline details in the 1964 home-movie frame. — The duck family continues past a docked boat, with ripples and reflections filling the frame.

The 1964 Greenwood Lake footage shows a duck leading ducklings across rippled water beneath a small boat tied at the dock. — Ducklings trail behind the adult duck below the moored boat and dock edge.

Near the Greenwood Lake dock, ducks pass tire bumpers, small boats, and shoreline grass in blue-purple 1964 8mm footage. — The ducks move past the dock area, with tire bumpers, small boats, and shoreline grass visible.

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