California-1955: Man Transfers Between Boats At Lakeside

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Transfers Between Boats At Lakeside — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and blue pants transfers from a small motorboat to a larger cabin cruiser at a lakeside dock in California, 1955. The scene unfolds on a sunny day with calm water reflecting the green hills and a modern house on the shore. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the relaxed atmosphere of mid-century boating life with authentic color and grain. This vintage home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s leisure and family recreation.

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: 125290367

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s California leisure, boating, and lakeside recreation requests for documentary inserts, educational programs, or period lifestyle sequences.
Period detail: Visible clues may show mid-century boating life, including a cabin cruiser, small dinghy, casual warm-weather clothing, calm reservoir water, and a modern shoreline house.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as a man carefully moves between a small boat and a larger cruiser during an ordinary lakeside outing.
What appears in frame: Frames show a man in a white shirt and blue pants, a small dinghy, a larger cabin cruiser, calm reflective water, green hills, a rocky bank, and a shoreline house.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft color, visible grain, slight gate edges, and handheld framing that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition into a 1950s boating, vacation, or California leisure sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents casual postwar-era recreation through visible boating activity and a relaxed lakeside setting, without identifying a specific lake or community.
Research note: A person is visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, while copyright, location, and any property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1955 California boating home movie, vintage 8mm lakeside recreation, 1950s cabin cruiser, and mid-century family vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with California 1955 lake footage, and then with broader 1950s boating or vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In California 1955 home-movie footage, a man bends over a small dinghy next to a cabin cruiser near a hilly shoreline. — A man leans into the small boat beside a larger cruiser on calm lakeside water.

The man steadies himself near the small boat and cabin cruiser, with reflective lake water and a hillside house in the background. — The man balances beside the small boat as the cabin cruiser sits close by.

A man in casual clothing reaches toward the cabin cruiser from the dinghy during a quiet California lakeside boating moment. — The man reaches from the small boat toward the larger cruiser.

The final frame shows the man handling gear near the small dinghy and cabin cruiser, with calm water and hillside shoreline behind him. — The man handles gear at the small boat beside the cruiser.

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