California-1955: Two Men Row Boat On Calm Lake With Rocky Cliffs

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Two Men Row Boat On Calm Lake With Rocky Cliffs — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1955 captures two men in a small white rowboat on calm water, likely a lake or river in California. One man rows with a wooden oar while the other sits relaxed, both wearing light-colored t-shirts. The boat, featuring a white cylindrical object, glides past a rugged, dark rock face that reflects in the still water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, candid quality, evoking mid-century American leisure and outdoor recreation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125290386

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: 1950s California home-movie footage suited for edits about mid-century outdoor leisure, boating, family travel, or quiet recreational life on inland water.
Period detail: The light T-shirts, small painted rowboat, wooden oars, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show casual 1950s American lake recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as two visible people sit close together in a rowboat while one handles the oars on calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small white rowboat, two men, wooden oars, a white cylindrical object in the boat, still water, rocky cliffs, reflections, and heavy frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that read as physical mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, leisure insert, or transition between broader scenes of California travel and outdoor recreation.
Historical context: The scene places small-scale recreational boating against rugged shoreline scenery, offering visual context for informal postwar American leisure without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright or location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches might include 1950s California 8mm rowboat, vintage home movie men rowing, calm lake rocky shore footage, and mid-century outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel, then California 1955 material, then related boating, lake, travel, and mid-century leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California 8mm frame showing two men in a small white rowboat near dark rocky shoreline and still water. — Two men sit in a white rowboat near a rocky cliff face reflected in calm water.

1955 California home-movie frame with one man rowing and another seated in a white boat beside rocky water. — One man works the oar while the other sits at the bow of the small rowboat.

The rowboat drifts past the rocky shoreline as the oar rests across the water.

1955 California 8mm frame showing two men in a white rowboat with yellow oars near shaded rocks and reflective water. — The boat sits near the edge of a shadowed rock wall with oars visible across the hull.

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