Cape Cod Massachusetts-1956: Documenting A Day On The Water With My Significant

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationCape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Cape Cod Massachusetts

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Documenting A Day On The Water With My Significant — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a family outing on a calm lake in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A man in a dark cap and glasses smiles at the camera from a wooden boat, while a woman in a patterned swimsuit adjusts her hair. The footage shows the boat's bow cutting through the water, with tree-lined shores and gentle ripples visible. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day spent outdoors.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorExterior
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: 125304266

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 1039 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jones beach,hyde park,cape cod
Reel-level year note: 1956
Reel-level location note: hyde park, cape cod
Date: 1956 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: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 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 home-movie requests needing leisure boating, summer recreation, or Cape Cod waterway atmosphere in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1950s recreational clothing, a small wooden boat, and handheld 8mm color photography consistent with the supplied 1956 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged vacation behavior: a man looks toward the camera from the water while a woman adjusts her hair in bright sun aboard the boat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden boat bow, calm lake water, tree-lined shore, ripples, a shirtless man with glasses, and a woman in a patterned swimsuit.
Film character: Warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability give the footage a personal 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, water-travel insert, summer transition, or cutaway within a sequence about family outings or coastal leisure.
Historical context: The footage reflects private mid-century outdoor recreation on a quiet waterway, without visible landmarks or public events that would support a more specific claim.
Research note: People are visible, including recognizable adult faces, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright or physical film ownership checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm Cape Cod boating, vintage home movie lake outing, wooden boat vacation footage, and midcentury summer water recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1956 Cape Cod or Massachusetts water footage, then broader 1950s family boating and summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1956 Cape Cod home-movie footage, a shirtless man with glasses looks toward the camera from the water near a tree-lined shore. — A man in glasses is seen close to the camera on the water, with low shoreline and trees in the background.

Calm Cape Cod waterway and green shoreline appear in soft 8mm color, with ripples suggesting the boat is moving. — The camera looks across rippled water toward a low, green shoreline.

The wooden bow of the boat points over calm water toward a distant Cape Cod shoreline in 1956 home-movie footage. — A wooden boat bow cuts through open water with a distant shoreline ahead.

A woman in a patterned swimsuit sits in the wooden boat, raising both hands to adjust her hair under bright sun. — A woman seated in the boat adjusts her hair while facing the camera.

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