California-1955: Scanning The Shore Line At A Lake In The Day Time

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Scanning The Shore Line At A Lake In The Day Time — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene in California. The camera pans slowly across a rocky shoreline, revealing rugged cliffs and lush green vegetation under bright daylight. The calm water reflects the natural landscape, with subtle ripples disturbing the mirror-like surface. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American outdoor experience. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125290449

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1950s California 8mm home-movie lake shoreline footage for documentary cutaways, nature inserts, or mid-century travel-memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century visitor's view of a California lake, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signs, or other date-specific clues beyond the film metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The slow shoreline scan has the observational quality of an unstaged home movie, lingering on water, rocks, and vegetation rather than a planned scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, rocky shoreline, steep low cliffs, green hillside vegetation, reflected rock forms, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, saturated color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, transition, or reflective memory beat between travel, outdoor recreation, or California landscape material.
Historical context: The clip documents a leisure-view landscape perspective, showing how a home-movie camera recorded natural scenery without identifiable people or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location context, and any broader project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1950s California lake shoreline, vintage 8mm rocky lakeside, home movie water reflection, and mid-century nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with California 1955 lake or travel footage, then with broader vintage nature and shoreline home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 California 8mm frame showing a rocky lake shoreline, green vegetation above the bank, and still water below. — Rocky shoreline and hillside vegetation reflected in calm lake water.

1955 California 8mm view of a rugged lakeside rock face, calm water, and brush-covered slope in daylight. — Rugged lake edge with reflected rocks and vegetation along the slope.

1955 California 8mm frame of jagged shoreline rocks, gentle lake ripples, and green hillside vegetation. — Jagged rocks meet quiet lake water beneath a brushy slope.

1955 California 8mm view of a rocky lakeshore cove, brushy slope, and reflective water surface in daylight. — Rocky lakeshore cove with hillside vegetation and calm reflective water.

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