California-1955: Looking At The Marina From The Water Watching The Boats

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Looking At The Marina From The Water Watching The Boats — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a California marina from the water. The footage shows a sailboat docked at a wooden pier, with a large house and palm trees visible along the waterfront. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing calm blue water and a classic mid-century home. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic 1950s aesthetic, offering authentic archival footage of coastal life and leisure.

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: 125290146

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s California waterfront home-movie footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief marina view from the water.
Period detail: The docked sailboat, wooden pier, waterfront homes, palms, and color 8mm texture support a mid-century coastal California setting from the supplied 1955 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the marina from a boat or waterside vantage, giving the scene an unstaged leisure-travel perspective rather than a formal establishing shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a docked sailboat, white pier posts, waterfront houses, palm trees, shoreline landscaping, and handheld frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries authentic 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, modest exposure shifts, blue color cast, and slight handheld movement across the water.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century leisure and marina sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows private waterfront recreation and residential shoreline life, useful as visual context for postwar-era California boating without asserting a specific community.
Research note: No people or logos are apparent, but waterfront homes and boats may require property or location review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s California marina, 8mm waterfront home movie, sailboat at dock, coastal leisure footage, and vintage boating cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with California 1955 waterfront material, then with broader marina, boating, and coastal leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California 8mm frame showing a docked sailboat, pier posts, blue water, and shoreline homes under trees. — A sailboat sits near a wooden pier as the camera looks across the marina from the water.

California marina view from the water with waterfront houses, palm trees, dock posts, and a small boat near shore. — The camera pans along the shoreline, showing homes, dock posts, and a small boat by the marina.

1955 8mm marina frame with a sailboat at left, white pier posts, waterfront homes, palms, and blue water. — A sailboat and dock posts frame the waterfront houses as the view continues across the marina.

California waterfront marina scene with a docked sailboat, pier, houses, palms, and soft 8mm film edges. — A docked sailboat rests near the pier with waterfront homes and palm trees behind it.

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