Cleveland Ohio-1938: Old Footage Of A Boat Floating In A River On A Windy Day

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCleveland, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Cleveland Ohio

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Old Footage Of A Boat Floating In A River On A Windy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a boat floating on a river in Cleveland, Ohio, on a windy day. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a small vessel moving along the waterway, with a city skyline and a prominent tower visible in the background. A tree branch frames the right side of the shot, and a railing appears in the foreground, suggesting the view is from a dock or another boat. The image has a classic, nostalgic quality with natural film grain and soft focus, evoking mid-20th century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125780375

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 1001 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1937-1938-1939
Reel-level location note: Cleveland
Date: 1938 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: Cleveland, Ohio, 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 1930s documentary or museum edits needing Cleveland riverfront atmosphere, small-craft movement, and urban waterfront context from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frame may show a 1930s river view with a small boat, railings, overhead structure, distant skyline, and a prominent tower consistent with the Cleveland metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels casually observed from a dock, bridge, or nearby vessel, preserving an unstaged moment of looking across windy water toward the city.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a river surface, small boat bow or hull edge, foreground railing, tree branches, structural posts, distant buildings, and a tall tower.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight frame-edge obstruction that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief waterfront insert, geographic transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1930s Cleveland sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for urban river travel and waterfront observation without confirming the specific waterway, vessel type, or landmark identity from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns for their intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 Cleveland 8mm river footage, 1930s Ohio waterfront home movie, black-and-white boat on river, and vintage urban skyline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Cleveland waterfront material, then with 1938 Ohio city views, then with broader 1930s river, boat, and urban travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Cleveland home-movie frame showing a riverfront view with foreground railing, trees, distant skyline, and a tall tower in haze. — Riverfront view toward distant Cleveland buildings, framed by railing and tree branches.

1938 Cleveland river scene with railing in front, distant buildings and tower beyond the water, and tree cover along the right edge. — Windy river scene with a distant skyline and tree-framed foreground.

Cleveland riverfront home-movie frame from 1938, showing water, a foreground rail, overhanging branches, and a hazy tower in the distance. — Hazy riverfront skyline seen from a low foreground railing.

1938 Cleveland 8mm frame looking across the river toward a distant urban skyline, with railing and tree branches in the foreground. — River and skyline framed by branches and a foreground rail.

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