Fort Ross California-1938: A Motorboat Sailing Slowly On A Lake

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationFort Ross, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Fort Ross California

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A Motorboat Sailing Slowly On A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a small white motorboat gliding slowly across a calm lake in Fort Ross, California. The black-and-white footage shows the boat moving from right to left, with a person visible at the helm. In the background, a grassy shoreline features trees, a wooden structure, and a tall utility tower under a bright, overcast sky. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of 8mm home movie footage from the era, evoking a quiet, nostalgic day on the water.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127263046

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
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: Fort Ross, California, 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 archival requests needing a quiet waterside motorboat cutaway from home-movie footage in Northern California.
Period detail: The small open motorboat, simple shoreline structures, utility poles, and black-and-white 8mm look may show late-1930s recreational boating details.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the boat from shore or another vessel, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of slow movement on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white motorboat, one or more people aboard, rippled water, grassy shoreline, trees, a low structure, utility poles, and bright sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its original physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief insert, transition, shoreline cutaway, or memory beat for travel, leisure, boating, or coastal California sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents small-scale recreational boating near a rural shoreline without showing a public event or identifiable commercial activity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from location or person review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm home movie motorboat footage, Fort Ross California lake or water scene, vintage recreational boating, and rural shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Fort Ross or 1938 California footage, then broader 1930s boating, shoreline, and travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Fort Ross home-movie frame showing a small white motorboat moving across water with trees, a low structure, and utility poles behind it. — A small white motorboat passes along the shoreline with trees and utility poles in the background.

1938 Fort Ross frame with a small white motorboat gliding past a grassy shoreline, distant trees, and utility poles under a bright sky. — The motorboat continues slowly across the water in front of a rural shoreline.

Fort Ross 1938 home-movie frame showing the motorboat farther across rippled water with trees, a low structure, and utility poles onshore. — The boat sits low in the frame as the shoreline trees and structures remain in view.

Final 1938 Fort Ross frame showing a small white motorboat on rippled water, with a rural shoreline and utility poles behind it. — The motorboat moves past the shoreline near trees and a low building.

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