Fort Ross California-1938: Black And White Footage Of A Fishing Boat In 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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Black And White Footage Of A Fishing Boat In A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a classic wooden motorboat on calm water, likely a lake or river. The boat, with its white hull and dark cabin, is moored near a grassy bank. Several people are visible on board and at the stern, suggesting a family outing or fishing trip. The footage exhibits characteristic grain, soft focus, and dark vignettes typical of 8mm home movies from the era. The scene evokes a nostalgic, quiet moment of mid-20th century leisure.

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: 127263269

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 editorial requests needing California home-movie footage of recreational boating, fishing trips, or quiet waterfront leisure.
Period detail: The wooden cabin motorboat, black-and-white 8mm look, and clothing glimpsed at the stern may show late-1930s recreational boating style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, watching people linger around a moored boat during a casual outing rather than posing for a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden cabin boat, white hull, dark cabin windows, calm water, grassy bank, trees, and people near the stern.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, edge vignetting, and handheld framing characteristic of small-gauge 1930s home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition for waterfront recreation, family travel, or historic small-boat sequences.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for prewar leisure boating at or near Fort Ross, with people gathered around a small motorboat on sheltered water.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright or location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Fort Ross boating footage, black-and-white home movie motorboat, vintage fishing boat on water, and 1930s California leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Fort Ross or 1938 California scenes, then broader 1930s boating, fishing, and waterside leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1938 Fort Ross home-movie frame showing a wooden cabin motorboat on calm water with people near the stern. — A cabin motorboat sits close to the bank as people stand near the stern.

Black-and-white Fort Ross frame of a moored wooden cabin boat, with a person visible at the stern and trees beyond the bank. — The boat remains moored near reeds or grass, with a figure standing at the stern.

1938 black-and-white home-movie frame showing the side of a wooden motorboat near shore, with people partly visible behind the cabin. — The camera frames the boat broadside, emphasizing the cabin windows and pale hull.

Black-and-white 1938 Fort Ross frame of the motorboat from the side, showing cabin windows, calm water, and partial hull markings. — The final frame shows the boat slightly farther across the frame, with partial markings on the bow.

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