Florida-1957: A Group Of People Boating In A Lake With A View Of Amazing Flowers And Palm Trees

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Florida

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A Group Of People Boating In A Lake With A View Of... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a group of people enjoying a boat ride on a serene lake in Florida. The clip opens with a close-up of a small white boat with passengers, including one in a bright red shirt, gliding through dark water beneath a canopy of leafy trees. The scene transitions to a wider view, revealing a lush, manicured garden with vibrant pink flowering bushes, palm trees, and a winding path. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, saturated colors, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality, evoking mid-century American leisure and nature.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127276440

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 1496 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,christening
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1957 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: Florida, 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s Florida leisure, home-movie boating, gardens, and subtropical vacation atmosphere for documentary or editorial inserts.
Period detail: The color 8mm home-movie look, small pleasure boat, manicured paths, flowering shrubs, and palms support a mid-century Florida travel or leisure setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged visitor perspective, watching people move by boat through garden water features and then taking in the landscaped grounds.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small white boat, people seated aboard, dark reflective water, leafy tree cover, palms, pink flowering shrubs, a curved path, and garden lawns.
Film character: The clip has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, vacation-memory beat, garden cutaway, or transition between Florida travel and outdoor leisure scenes.
Historical context: The scenes show mid-century recreational sightseeing in a landscaped subtropical setting, with boating and garden views presented through a family-film lens.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright and location/property status remain separate checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 Florida 8mm boating, vintage home movie garden lake, mid-century palm trees and flowers, and color family travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Florida garden or boating footage, then broader mid-century outdoor leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Florida 8mm frame showing a small white boat with seated passengers moving through shaded water beneath leafy trees. — Boat passengers pass through a shaded garden waterway.

A small boat with visible passengers continues along a shaded Florida garden waterway in soft color 8mm footage. — The boat moves along the tree-lined water feature.

1957 Florida garden view with palm trees, flowering shrubs, a pond-like water feature, lawn, and a curved walking path. — A manicured garden opens into palms, flowers, water, and paths.

A Florida garden scene shows palms, dense pink flowers, reflective water, and a pale winding path in vintage 8mm color. — The camera holds on the landscaped garden and winding path.

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