Lake George New York-1955: Several Families Enjoy Their Day On The Water Or On

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationLake George, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1955 Lake George New York

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Several Families Enjoy Their Day On The Water Or On — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene day at Lake George, New York. A red canoe glides across the calm water, carrying several people through a lush, tree-lined shoreline. The footage, with its characteristic grain and soft color palette, shows a family enjoying a leisurely outing. Later frames reveal people on the lakeside bank near a rustic cabin, embodying classic mid-century American outdoor recreation. This archival Super 8 clip offers authentic, nostalgic footage of a 1950s lakeside vacation.

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: 125302446

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1037 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: lake george vacation,benny's
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: lake george
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: Lake George, New York, 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: Useful for 1950s documentary or educational edits needing real 8mm home-movie views of lakeside recreation in upstate New York.
Period detail: The small red canoe, wooded shoreline, rustic lakeside cabin area, and soft color 8mm texture support a mid-century vacation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family outing, with people boating at a distance and gathering casually along the lake bank.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, dense trees, a red canoe, distant boaters, a shoreline bank, a rustic cabin area, and people near the water.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, handheld framing, and slight exposure variation typical of original 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for summer vacation, camping, boating, or family leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century outdoor recreation through ordinary home-movie observation rather than staged travel or tourism imagery.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos appear, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm Lake George footage, vintage family boating, lakeside camping, upstate New York vacation, and home-movie canoe scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Lake George 1955 material, then broader 1950s boating, camping, and family vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red canoe crosses Lake George, New York, with dense wooded shoreline behind it in 1955 8mm home-movie footage. — Distant canoeists move along the wooded Lake George shoreline.

Distant boaters in a red canoe travel near the tree-lined shore of Lake George in mid-1950s home-movie footage. — The canoe remains near shore, partly softened by distance and film grain.

A red canoe appears near the far wooded bank of Lake George, with rippled water filling the foreground. — The lake surface and wooded bank frame the small canoe at a distance.

People gather along the Lake George shoreline near a rustic lakeside cabin area, seen from across the water in 1955 8mm footage. — A small group stands near the cabin area on the lakeside bank.

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