New Jersey-1938: Small Boat on Dark Lake at Dusk

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 New Jersey

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Small Boat on Dark Lake at Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a small boat gliding across a dark lake at dusk or night. The grainy, low-light footage shows the boat moving slowly, leaving a faint wake behind. The surrounding shoreline is barely visible, with dark silhouettes suggesting a forested edge. The image is framed by heavy vignetting, typical of old 8mm home movies, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This rare piece of retro footage offers a quiet, atmospheric glimpse into a past era, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267249

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New Jersey, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1930s New Jersey home-movie footage for productions needing a brief nocturnal lake or small-boat cutaway with an understated archival mood.
Period detail: The frames may show 1930s leisure boating, with only a small craft, dark water, and a barely readable wooded shoreline visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet, observational feel of a home-movie camera held on a distant boat rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat, dark lake surface, faint wake, shadowed shoreline, forest silhouette, heavy vignette, and low-light grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, underexposed shadows, soft focus, and dark gate edges that give the scene its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for nighttime recreation, lakeside travel, or reflective family-history sequences.
Historical context: The view suggests outdoor recreation in New Jersey in 1938, but the exact lake, shoreline, and boat occupants are not identifiable from these frames.
Research note: Rights review should account for reported people visibility and possible likeness concerns, while no logos or private property are discernible in the sampled frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 New Jersey 8mm lake boat, vintage home movie night boating, dark lake shoreline footage, and small boat on water archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1938 New Jersey lake scenes, then broader 1930s boating, forest, and nighttime water footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 New Jersey 8mm frame showing a small boat on dark lake water, with heavy vignetting and a faint wake. — A distant small boat moves across a low-light lake surface.

A small boat appears on a dark New Jersey lake in this grainy 1938 8mm home-movie frame. — The boat remains distant against rippled, underexposed water.

Low-light 8mm frame of a small boat moving across a dark lake, with New Jersey location supported by clip metadata. — The small craft is faintly visible on the dark lake surface.

1938 New Jersey lake frame with a small boat near a shadowed shoreline and indistinct forest edge. — A small boat passes near the dark shoreline at the edge of the lake.

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