Cape Cod Massachusetts-1956: The Fast Boat Ride By One Day

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

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The Fast Boat Ride By One Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a serene boat ride along a calm waterway in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The view from the boat shows a distant white house nestled among trees on the shoreline, followed by a small dock with a white boat and a sandy beach. A person's bare back is visible in the foreground, suggesting a relaxed summer outing. The footage features classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a nostalgic, personal perspective typical of mid-century family vacation films.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125304328

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 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 Cape Cod vacation or boating sequences needing real 8mm home-movie shoreline travel footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century leisure details in the small motorboat viewpoint, sandy landing, simple dock, and muted 1956 color film palette.
Home-movie behavior: The camera rides from inside the boat, with a bare-backed passenger partly in frame, giving the scene an unstaged family outing perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, a wooded shoreline, sandy paths, a small dock, moored white boats, a distant house, and part of a passenger's back.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, handheld movement, gate edges, and muted color that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, summer memory beat, shoreline transition, or Cape Cod boating cutaway.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational waterfront travel in a Cape Cod setting, shown through a personal vacation camera rather than a staged travelogue.
Research note: A person is partly visible from behind and shoreline property appears at a distance, so likeness and property review should remain separate from copyright review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Cape Cod boat ride, 8mm family vacation on water, Massachusetts shoreline home movie, or vintage summer boating may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Cape Cod material, then broader 1950s boating or family vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cape Cod 8mm frame from a boat, showing calm water, a wooded shore, a distant white house, and part of a passenger in the foreground. — Boat-level view across the water with a passenger partly blocking the shoreline.

Cape Cod shoreline seen from a moving boat, with white boats by a dock, sandy paths through trees, and choppy water in front. — A small dock and white boats appear along the wooded shoreline.

1956 home-movie frame of a Cape Cod waterfront with a dock, white boats, grassy bank, sandy rise, and trees behind it. — The camera passes a quiet landing with boats moored near the sand.

Cape Cod boating view from 1956, looking toward a small waterfront landing with white boats, dock posts, trees, and sandy paths. — The boat continues past a wooded landing and moored white boats.

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