Yorktown Virginia-1958: Motorboat About To Dock In Small Town With Flags Fluttering

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYorktown, Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Yorktown Virginia

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Motorboat About To Dock In Small Town With Flags Fluttering — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet waterfront scene in Yorktown, Virginia. Viewed through a window with a fluttering orange flag in the foreground, the clip shows a motorboat approaching a small dock on a calm river. A lone pedestrian walks along the water's edge near a chain-link fence, while a multi-story building and other homes line the opposite shore. The footage features natural film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of mid-century home movies.

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: 127285856

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: 1958 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: Yorktown, Virginia, 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: 1950s Yorktown waterfront home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits needing a quiet small-town river approach with a motorboat, flags, and pedestrian activity.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century waterfront details in streetlights, modest shoreline buildings, chain-link fencing, small boats, and flag bunting along a town dock area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from behind a window or flag, capturing an unstaged pedestrian and boat movement rather than a posed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a river, motorboat, dock area, chain-link fence, lone pedestrian, waterfront buildings, streetlights, trees, and fluttering orange flag fabric.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight motion blur, and gate-edge shadows that contribute to its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a waterfront establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition between Yorktown scenes, or quiet mid-century small-town atmosphere beat.
Historical context: The footage documents everyday leisure and transport along a Virginia waterfront without making specific claims about named landmarks or events beyond the supplied Yorktown metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Yorktown Virginia 8mm waterfront, 1950s small-town river dock, vintage home movie motorboat, and mid-century pedestrian by waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Yorktown footage, then other 1958 Virginia waterfront clips, then broader 1950s home movies of boats, docks, flags, and small-town river scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown waterfront view with orange flag fabric in the foreground, a lone pedestrian near a chain-link fence, boats, streetlights, and buildings across the river. — A pedestrian stands near the waterfront fence as boats and buildings appear across the river.

1958 Yorktown riverfront with a lone pedestrian by the fence, small boats near the dock area, tall streetlights, trees, and shoreline buildings. — The waterfront remains calm as a pedestrian walks near the fence and boats move near the dock area.

Soft 1958 Yorktown waterfront frame showing a pedestrian near the lower-left fence, river traffic, streetlights, trees, and buildings along the opposite shore. — A pedestrian passes along the fence line while the riverfront buildings and boats stay in soft focus.

1958 Yorktown waterfront view with a pedestrian near a yellow post, chain-link fence in front, broad river water, boats, trees, and shoreline buildings. — The final frame holds on the waterfront fence and pedestrian with boats and buildings across the water.

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