Fort Ross California-1938: Motorboat on Calm River in Coastal Community

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

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Motorboat on Calm River in Coastal Community — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage black and white footage captures a small motorboat gliding along a calm river in Fort Ross, California. The boat, with its classic cabin and registration number visible, moves steadily through the water under an overcast sky. In the background, simple buildings and a water tower stand along the shoreline, evoking a quiet coastal community. The grainy texture and soft focus of the Super 8 home movie lend a nostalgic, archival quality to the scene, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century maritime life.

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: 127263233

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s black-and-white 8mm footage for productions needing a brief coastal California river or small motorboat insert.
Period detail: The cabin motorboat, shoreline buildings, water tower, and soft monochrome 8mm image may show a late-1930s coastal community setting.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has a casual home-movie viewpoint, watching the boat pass from shore without staged action or visible subjects posing.
What appears in frame: A cabin motorboat, calm river water, low shoreline structures, a small water tower, utility poles, reeds, and overcast sky are visible.
Film character: The footage has coarse grain, soft focus, rounded frame edges, and slight exposure variation consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short maritime cutaway, river transition, period travel insert, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for small-boat movement beside modest waterfront buildings in a Fort Ross, California home-movie setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, vessel identification, and any shoreline property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s 8mm motorboat footage, Fort Ross river home movie, vintage California coastal boat, or black-and-white cabin cruiser.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Fort Ross or 1938 California footage, then broader vintage boating or coastal community scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Fort Ross home-movie frame showing a cabin motorboat passing near low shoreline buildings under an overcast sky. — A cabin motorboat moves along calm water beside a modest shoreline.

The cabin motorboat continues past the Fort Ross shoreline, with small buildings and a water tower visible behind it. — The boat passes in front of shoreline buildings and a small water tower.

A closer 1938 Fort Ross frame shows the cabin motorboat near shore, with simple buildings, poles, and reeds in soft focus. — The motorboat fills more of the frame as it moves past the shoreline.

The final frame shows the Fort Ross cabin motorboat continuing along calm water beside a low building and shoreline vegetation. — The boat continues along the river beside a low shoreline building.

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