California-1955: Houses And Boats On A Waterfront With Trees And Poles

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Houses And Boats On A Waterfront With Trees And Poles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil waterfront scene in California. The clip shows a row of modest houses along a calm body of water, with several boats docked nearby. A large white sailboat with tall masts is a prominent feature, gently bobbing on the water. The footage exhibits classic 1950s Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, warm color tones, and visible grain. Trees and utility poles line the shore, adding to the nostalgic, everyday Americana feel. The camera pans slowly, offering a peaceful view of a coastal community.

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: 125290115

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 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 inserts, coastal-community cutaways, and documentary background material around small boats and shoreline houses.
Period detail: The modest shore houses, utility poles, small docks, and sailboats may show mid-1950s residential waterfront life in California.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint from across the water, observing boats and houses without posed action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, shoreline homes, docked small boats, a large white sailboat, tall masts, trees, utility poles, and soft blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, muted color, and handheld framing that add usable archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, a coastal transition, or a memory beat between more active 1950s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents everyday residential waterfront surroundings rather than a known landmark, public event, or named harbor.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 California waterfront home movie, 8mm sailboat shoreline houses, vintage coastal homes, and midcentury docked boats.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront material, then California 1955 boating or shoreline clips, then broader vintage coastal Americana scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California 8mm view of modest waterfront houses, docked boats, utility poles, and calm water. — Houses and small boats line a quiet waterfront with utility poles behind them.

1955 California waterfront scene with a large white sailboat, shoreline homes, trees, and utility poles. — A white sailboat sits near the shoreline in front of houses and trees.

Soft 8mm frame of a California waterfront with sailboat rigging, small boats, houses, and utility poles. — Sailboat rigging crosses the frame as houses and boats sit along the far shore.

1955 California home-movie frame showing a white sailboat on calm water with waterfront buildings and trees behind it. — A large white sailboat passes across the foreground of a quiet waterfront view.

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