Greenwood Lake New York-1964: Motorboat On Lake With Mountains In The Distance

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

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Motorboat On Lake With Mountains In The Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat gliding across the calm waters of Greenwood Lake, New York. In the distance, a tree-covered mountain range stretches across the horizon under a soft, overcast sky. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows subtle film grain and vertical scratches, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. The boat moves steadily from left to right, leaving a gentle wake, evoking a peaceful summer day on the lake.

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: 124937858

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie lake footage suited for documentary inserts about leisure travel, boating, summer memory, or regional life in Greenwood Lake, New York.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s recreational boating through its 8mm color stock, small open motorboat, distant wooded shoreline, and informal window-framed viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual observer's perspective, watching a small motorboat pass across the lake without staged action or formal composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, tiny occupants, calm lake water, faint boat wake, distant wooded hills, pale sky, dark window framing, and film scratches.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm color, mild exposure variation, visible grain, vertical scratches, and slight handheld or projection-frame instability.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, lakeside memory beat, or establishing insert for a home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary recreational lake use in a wooded northeastern setting, with emphasis on landscape and leisure rather than a documented public event.
Research note: People appear only as small distant figures on the boat, but likeness clearance, location claims, and copyright status should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm lake boating, Greenwood Lake New York home movie, vintage motorboat on water, and family vacation lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Greenwood Lake material, then broader 1960s lake, boating, and summer travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Greenwood Lake 8mm frame showing a small motorboat on calm water, distant wooded hills, pale sky, and dark window edges. — A small motorboat moves across Greenwood Lake with low mountains on the horizon.

1964 Greenwood Lake frame with a small boat and distant people, soft horizon hills, pale sky, and visible 8mm film wear. — The boat remains small in the frame as it passes below the distant wooded shoreline.

Greenwood Lake home-movie frame from 1964 showing a small motorboat, distant figures, calm water, hills, and scratched 8mm texture. — A low, distant boat travels across the lake in a softly exposed 8mm frame.

Final 1964 Greenwood Lake frame showing the small motorboat farther right, distant hills, calm blue water, and dark film-window framing. — The motorboat moves toward the right side of the lake view beneath a low ridge.

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