California-1955: Women Conversing On A Calm Lake While Two People Are Rowing

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Women Conversing On A Calm Lake While Two People Are Rowing — Clip Details

CALIFORNIA-1955: Two women in vintage swimwear and a green patterned dress converse on a lakeside shore, their faces lit with smiles. In the background, a man rows a small boat across calm waters, with another person visible in the boat. The scene captures a relaxed summer day, with the 8mm film showing natural color shifts and grain, evoking a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the mid-1950s.

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: 125290411

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, lakeside recreation, family vacation, and mid-century home-movie sequences needing relaxed people and rowing activity.
Period detail: The swimwear, curled hairstyles, small rowboat, and 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-1950s leisure setting in California.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged exchange between women at the water's edge while rowers pass behind them on the lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two or three women close to camera, calm lake water, a small rowboat, oars, distant shore, swimwear, and a green patterned garment.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it authentic family-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a summer vacation, lake outing, or mid-century recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal social leisure at a lakeside setting, with women conversing near shore while boating continues in the background.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to any copyright or source-film licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s California lake home movie, women talking by water, vintage rowing boat footage, and 8mm summer recreation scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1955 lake footage, then broader 1950s boating and vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1955 California home-movie footage, two women sit near the lake shore as a small rowboat moves across the water behind them. — Two women converse by the lake while a rowboat passes in the background.

Two women smile and talk near a California lake, with a man rowing a small boat and another passenger visible in the background. — Women smile at the lakeside as a small rowboat crosses behind them.

A close home-movie view shows two women conversing by calm water, with a rowboat, oars, and distant shore visible behind them. — Two women continue their lakeside conversation while boating activity remains in the background.

Three women appear at the edge of frame near a calm California lake, with a small rowboat and rower visible behind them. — A wider moment shows several women at the shore with the rowboat farther back on the lake.

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