Holland Michigan-1969: Motorboat On Lake With Trees And Houses On Shoreline

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHolland, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Holland Michigan

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Motorboat On Lake With Trees And Houses On Shoreline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake scene in Holland, Michigan. A small motorboat speeds across the water, leaving a white wake, while the distant shoreline features scattered houses nestled among dense green trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a dark frame border suggesting it was filmed through a window. The calm water reflects the overcast sky, creating a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of a summer day on the lake.

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: 125594283

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 1020 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: holland michigan
Date: 1969 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: Holland, Michigan, 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 1960s Michigan lake-life requests needing a brief home-movie cutaway of a motorboat crossing open water near a wooded shoreline.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, visible frame borders, and distant lakeside houses support a late-1960s home-movie view rather than a staged travel scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a family camera pointed across a lake, observing a passing boat and quiet shoreline from a fixed or window-framed vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a small motorboat and wake, a tree-lined far shore, scattered lakeside houses, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, mild softness, color fading, exposure variation, and frame-edge shadows that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a lake-establishing insert, a calm transition, a leisure-memory cutaway, or a brief visual bridge in a Midwest travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary late-1960s recreational lake use in Holland, Michigan, with boating and shorefront dwellings seen from a distance.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any distant shoreline property considerations should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Research matches include 1969 8mm Holland Michigan lake footage, vintage motorboat on lake, Midwest shoreline home movie, and 1960s recreational boating.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with Holland or Michigan material from 1969, then with broader lake, boating, shoreline, and summer leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Holland, Michigan 8mm frame of a small motorboat moving across open lake water near a tree-lined shore with scattered houses. — A small motorboat passes across the lake, leaving a faint wake near the far shoreline.

1969 Holland, Michigan lake view with a distant motorboat and white wake against a low wooded shoreline and small houses. — The boat continues along the far side of the lake below a pale sky.

1969 Holland, Michigan home-movie frame showing rippled lake water, a wooded far shore, and small lakeside structures in the distance. — The lake view settles on the distant shoreline after the boat moves out of frame.

1969 Holland, Michigan 8mm view across open water toward a wooded shoreline with scattered houses and a dark frame edge. — Open water fills the foreground, with trees and houses lining the far shore.

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