California-1955: Four Women Sitting on Railing by Lake

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Four Women Sitting on Railing by Lake — Clip Details

A sun-drenched 8mm home movie from 1955 captures four older women enjoying a summer day by a lake in California. Dressed in period-appropriate swimwear and casual attire, they sit together on a railing, laughing and conversing. One woman wears a distinctive red and white visor, while another is in a black and white one-piece swimsuit. The vibrant colors and film grain evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic leisure.

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: 125290404

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s California leisure, women's social life, lake recreation, or mid-century home-movie inserts in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The swimwear, casual blouse, visor, curled hairstyles, and color 8mm look support a mid-1950s recreational setting by a California lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip shows a relaxed, unstaged group moment as four women sit close together, smile, talk, and look toward each other and the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include four women on a railing, swimsuits and casual tops, a red-and-white visor, lake water, shoreline hills, dock posts, and bright sun.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, social-life cutaway, summer recreation insert, or transition into a 1950s leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects visible mid-century vacation or lakeside recreation habits, with women gathered informally in swimwear and casual summer clothing.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from personal rights clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s California lake home movie, older women in swimwear, mid-century summer recreation, and 8mm family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1955 California lake scenes, then broader 1950s women’s leisure or vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Four women in 1950s California lake footage sit together on a railing, wearing swimwear and casual summer clothing. — Four women sit side by side on a lakeside railing during a sunny outing.

Four women sit on a lakeside railing in 1950s California, with one older woman looking toward the camera. — The group remains seated by the water as one woman looks toward the camera.

In a California lake home movie, three women turn toward an older woman seated at the end of the railing. — The women turn toward one another during a relaxed lakeside conversation.

A tighter 1950s California lake frame shows two women near the water, including one in a red-and-white visor. — The final frame tightens on two women seated near rippling lake water.

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