Fort Ross California-1938: Boat Travels Near The Shore During A Day With Sparse

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

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Boat Travels Near The Shore During A Day With Sparse — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a classic motorboat gliding smoothly along a calm waterway near the shore. The black-and-white footage shows the boat moving steadily through the water, with a distant shoreline featuring sparse vegetation, utility poles, and a few buildings under an overcast sky. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of early 20th-century home movies, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere. This archival clip offers a serene glimpse into mid-century leisure and transportation in a coastal setting.

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: 127263191

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 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 brief coastal or river motorboat cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The small cabin motorboat, sparse shoreline structures, utility poles and black-and-white 8mm look support the 1938 Fort Ross metadata without adding a specific landmark claim.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observer's shoreline or passing-boat perspective, recording a leisure craft moving steadily rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cabin motorboat, calm water, low shoreline vegetation, utility poles, small buildings, cloudy sky and heavy film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure and contact-sheet frame edges give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition or reflective cutaway for coastal travel, recreation or waterside life in the 1930s.
Historical context: The view suggests small-scale boating near a developed shoreline, with modest buildings and utility infrastructure visible in the background.
Research note: No people, faces or brands are visible in these frames, but copyright, location and any vessel or shoreline property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches for 1938 8mm motorboat footage, Fort Ross California shoreline, vintage home movie boat, or 1930s coastal waterway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Fort Ross 1938 material, then other 1930s California shoreline or small-boat scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Fort Ross home-movie frame showing a small cabin motorboat moving near shore with utility poles and low buildings in the distance. — A small motorboat travels along calm water near a sparse shoreline.

The Fort Ross boat remains centered on the water, with an overcast sky, low shoreline growth and distant poles visible behind it. — The boat continues past a low, sparsely built shoreline.

A closer 8mm view shows the cabin motorboat beside the shore, with rooflines, poles and soft black-and-white grain in the background. — The camera holds on the passing cabin boat as shoreline buildings come into view.

The boat moves along the Fort Ross shoreline, with small buildings, poles and a tower-like structure visible through soft 8mm grain. — A shoreline structure and utility poles appear behind the moving motorboat.

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