California-1955: Passing Brown Boat In Water On A Clear Sunny Day

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Passing Brown Boat In Water On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront scene in California. The footage shows several boats moored in a calm harbor, with a person in a red shirt visible on a docked vessel. The camera pans slowly across the water, revealing houses and palm trees along the shoreline under a clear, sunny sky. The image has the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a classic American summer day.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125290092

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 1449 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: david,alex
Reel-level year note: 1953-1955-1956
Reel-level location note: palm springs california
Date: 1955 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: California, 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: Useful for 1950s California waterfront, marina, boating, or leisure-life sequences needing brief editorial home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century small boats, low shoreline buildings, utility poles, and harbor docks consistent with the supplied 1955 California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes boats from the water or dock area, lingering on harbor activity without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include moored cabin boats, a passing dark-hulled boat, blue harbor water, docks, shoreline buildings, trees, utility poles, and a few distant people.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks, saturated blues, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a waterfront cutaway, travel-memory insert, harbor transition, or quiet beat between broader California leisure scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational boating and shoreline development as seen by an amateur camera, without identifying a specific marina or community.
Research note: People are distant but visible, and shoreline structures appear in view, so likeness and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 8mm California harbor footage, vintage home movie boats, mid-century marina scenes, and sunny waterfront cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with California 1955 waterfront material, then with broader vintage boating and harbor-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California home-movie frame showing moored white boats, dock posts, and distant people beside a marina area. — Moored boats and small figures appear near a harbor dock.

A small white boat sits or moves near the shoreline in a California harbor, with buildings, trees, and utility poles behind it. — A white cabin boat is seen against the harbor shoreline.

The camera frames a marina shoreline with a small boat in the foreground, low buildings, trees, and poles under a clear sky. — A small boat passes near docks and shoreline buildings.

A dark-hulled boat crosses the harbor foreground, partially silhouetted against blue water and a tree-lined California shoreline. — A dark boat passes in front of the shoreline.

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