California-1955: Man Rowing Small Boat Near Lakeside Cabin

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Rowing Small Boat Near Lakeside Cabin — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt rows a small boat on calm water in this 1955 California home movie. The vintage 8mm footage captures him paddling near a larger motorboat and a lakeside cabin with a green roof. Sunlight reflects on the water, and the shoreline features trees and a grassy hill. The clip shows a peaceful, nostalgic moment of leisure on a lake, with natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125290362

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s California leisure, boating, lakeside vacation, and home-movie inserts in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1950s recreational boating, with a small rowboat, larger cabin-style motorboat, simple lakeside cabin, and casual white shirt visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie moment as a man rows, pauses near a larger boat, and leans toward the water during a quiet lakeside outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a rowboat, calm reflective water, a larger motorboat, shoreline trees, grassy hillside, simple lakeside cabin, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and mild blur that give the scene recognizable physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, vacation-memory insert, leisure transition, or establishing detail for midcentury boating and lakeside recreation.
Historical context: The scene reflects private recreational time around a lake, showing small-boat activity and modest shoreline development without identifying a specific lake or community.
Research note: A person and shoreline structures are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from copyright or source-film licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s California home movie boating, 8mm lake vacation footage, man rowing small boat, lakeside cabin, and vintage recreational water scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel California vacation material, then other 1955 lake or boating scenes, then broader 1950s family leisure and outdoor recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California 8mm frame of a man in a white shirt rowing a small boat near a shoreline cabin and wooded hillside. — A man rows a small boat across calm water near a shoreline cabin.

1955 California home-movie frame showing a man in a rowboat beside a larger motorboat, with a lakeside cabin in the background. — The rowboat moves near a larger motorboat moored by the shoreline.

1955 California 8mm still of a man in a small rowboat next to a larger boat, with reflective water and a hillside cabin beyond. — A rowboat drifts alongside a larger boat in front of the wooded shore.

1955 California home-movie frame of a man leaning from a rowboat beside a larger boat, with shoreline trees and a cabin behind. — The man leans toward the water from the rowboat beside the larger boat.

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