California-1955: Waterfront Harbor With Boats, Buildings, and American Flags

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Waterfront Harbor With Boats, Buildings, and American Flags — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage California footage captures a tranquil waterfront scene with a small harbor. The clip shows a row of modest buildings, including a gas station and residential homes, lining the water's edge. American flags fly atop poles, and utility wires crisscross the sky. Several boats are docked along the pier, with people visible near the structures. The image has a distinct blue tint and film grain, characteristic of home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American coastal atmosphere.

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: 125290106

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, harbor, and small-town coastal cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or period memory edits.
Period detail: American flags, low waterfront buildings, utility poles, docked small boats, and a service-station-like structure may show mid-century coastal infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor viewpoint from across the water, observing everyday harbor buildings, boats, and passersby without formal posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, docked small boats, American flags, waterfront buildings, a gabled house, utility wires, and people near the pier.
Film character: The 8mm image carries blue color shift, visible grain, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor establishing insert, a coastal transition, a period cutaway, or a quiet memory beat between family scenes.
Historical context: The scene records a modest waterfront edge where commercial, residential, utility, and recreational boating spaces appear close together.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, property, and any incidental signage should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s California harbor footage, 8mm waterfront buildings, mid-century boats at dock, and home movie coastal town.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California 1955 waterfront material, then broader 1950s harbor, boats, flags, and coastal-town scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California harbor view with low waterfront buildings, American flags, docked boats, utility poles, and blue water in the foreground. — Across the water, small harbor buildings and flags line a dock with boats nearby.

California waterfront frame showing a service-station-like harbor building, American flags, utility wires, docked boats, and a nearby house. — A service-style waterfront building stands beside docked boats and a gabled house.

1955 California waterfront view with small boats at the dock, low buildings, American flags, overhead wires, and people near the harbor edge. — Small boats sit along the pier in front of low waterfront buildings and flags.

California harbor frame with waterfront houses, several docked boats, utility poles and wires, flags, and rippled blue water in front. — Waterfront houses and boats appear beyond rippled harbor water and utility lines.

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