California-1955: Man and Child Paddling Rowboat While Women Relax on Dock

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man and Child Paddling Rowboat While Women Relax on Dock — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1955 captures a sunny day on a lake in California. A man and a child paddle a small rowboat through calm waters, framed by steep, rocky cliffs. The scene shifts to four women in period swimwear and summer clothes, smiling and relaxing together on a dock. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, personal feel, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125290402

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 for edits needing leisure, lakeside recreation, or small-boat activity in a rocky quarry setting.
Period detail: The women's swimwear, sunglasses, headscarf, and casual dockside posing may show mid-1950s summer fashion and social recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves relaxed, unstaged vacation behavior, with a small boat on calm water followed by women smiling and sitting together on a dock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small rowboat, yellow oars, calm lake water, steep rock walls, a dock edge, four women, sunglasses, and period swimwear.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and warm color that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief recreation insert, a lakeside transition, or a memory beat between broader California or family-travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents informal outdoor leisure around a quarry-like lake without identifying the people, exact site, or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s California lake home movie, quarry lake rowboat, vintage women swimwear dock, and 8mm family recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with California 1955 lake or quarry footage, then with broader 1950s summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California home-movie frame showing a man and child in a small rowboat on a quarry-like lake beside steep rock walls. — A man rows a small boat with a child seated at the bow near rocky shoreline.

1955 California home-movie frame with two people in a small rowboat crossing still water beneath a steep rocky quarry wall. — The rowboat moves across still water with rock walls reflected behind it.

1955 California home-movie frame showing four women on a dock by a lake, wearing swimsuits, sunglasses, and casual summer clothing. — Four women sit closely on a dock with the lake and hillside behind them.

1955 California home-movie frame of four women smiling on a dock beside a quarry-like lake, with period swimwear and summer clothing visible. — The group poses on the dock, facing the camera in bright outdoor light.

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